Would this be power modification or adaptation?

[sukuna171]

Let's say they're right and Stasis has in some way changed
itself. Why would Stasis weaken its effect against other
Guardians? I'll tell you exactly why. Same reason a virus
evolves a strain that won't kill its host. People were
turning against Stasis, didn't like what it was doing to
their Crucible. So Stasis made itself nicer. So we'd keep on
using it. If Stasis was better than what the Traveler gave
us we wouldn't be able to accept it as just another colorful
species of whoopass. We might get scared of it.

Now I do know something about viruses from my frontier
medicine days. I know that gentler strains of a virus have
a competitive advantage if they keep their host alive long
enough to jump to a new one. So we can imagine Stasis
as a virus, maybe even a virus with purpose—limiting its
virulence so as to get at the rest of us.


But we've got to remember that a virus only evolves to
go easy on its host when that makes it more successful.
It's a myth that all diseases evolve to coexist peacefully
with us. A virus will crank up its lethality to 99% so long
as that viciousness also lets it reach a new host. If a virus
could make people explode like rotten balloons and infect
everyone nearby, a virus would do it. Viruses don't give
a damn for anything except making more of themselves.