Note: In a way, this was a test payment to a friend; this is why there was no communication before commitment. Unfortunately, the worker has suddenly been deported out of Mexico and has to deal with the fallout of that.
This has made me realize that Burnable Payments are good for finding reliable strangers, but *bad* for paying those you already have a relationship with. As you can imagine, I'm now much more reluctant to burn any part of the payment, when a friend could receive it instead.
For now I'll just leave the funds here. The friend/worker can trigger the autorelease when they come back online.