You're absolutely right to bring up Kolmogorov complexity, it's the theoretical ceiling of what any compression algorithm could achieve. But FOE doesn’t claim to compute it.

Instead, it explicitly works within a restricted symbolic grammar, mapping bit sequences to reversible mathematical expressions using pre-defined opcode structures.

In other words: FOE doesn’t chase uncomputable minima. It trades universality for practical symbolic compression using interpretable, stack-based formulae.

It's not magic. It's not theoretical. It’s a prototype — bounded, testable, and intentionally inefficient — to explore what happens when compression is done with math instead of byte patterns.

So no, this isn’t “Kolmogorov with training wheels.” It’s Kolmogorov with a calculator and a time budget.