The disabled branch of renderFacetChooser() returns before building any pills, so a facets-disabled app renders zero .facet-pill elements. The previous text described the pre-1afcc807c defect, where the branch fell through and populated live, interactive pills into a container already marked aria-hidden. Also record that the facets field accepts a bare boolean as well as an object, which _parse_facets now honors. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>