because no actual person in real life, finding themselves in this situation would simply "Trust" that they were not going to be transformed body and soul by this thing that annihilates a person's entire existence, just because ours isn't behaving in the traditional way exactly.
Reminds me of Pascal's wager, except in this case hell is ceremorphosis.
Pascal was a philosopher who wanted to figure out whether it was rational to fear hell. His technique is based on expected value : multiply the odds of an event by the "reward" you get when that event occurs. The odds of hell may be infinitesimal, but the "reward" for damnation is infinitely bad. Hence, the expected value of sin is negative as long as hell is a possibility (however remote).
The odds of ceremorphosis go down with every hour of delay, but the consequences are so bad that it would make no sense to bet on everything turning out fine.
And since only first few hours is essential, even tho we cannot pinpoint the exact time when it would happen, what is certain is that it WOULD happen ... and since its not happening, it can mean only one thing.
In the spirit of friendly argument, there's no in-game empirical evidence that delayed ceremorphosis "can mean
only one thing". If a living creature isn't acting as expected, keep an eye on it. Erratic behaviour in the wild is rarely a good thing. Erratic behaviour in a living thing inside your brain shouldn't reassure you.
