Quote Originally Posted by Renathras View Post
truncate
To shorten or limit the extent something, usually by cropping or precluding its upper end.

Job A is permitted to expand its kit organically to whatever extent of resultant complexity, from current level G to figurative Z.
Job B is permitted to expand its kit organically to whatever extent of resultant complexity, from current level G to figurative Z.
Job C is permitted to expand its kit organically to whatever extent of resultant complexity, from current level G to figurative Z.
Job D is permitted to expand its kit only from its current level of complexity G to at most as far as H. What potential it had for a higher end is cropped. / Its current kit, which would otherwise be able and expected to expand, is bounded at a lower ceiling.

As in: "Joe and Tom work for the same company, having started at the same time under the same salary, both gradually increasing their salary with their achievements as they accumulate raises. Tom gets in an accident, afflicting him with a TBI. Though he retains the same salary as before, he no longer moves up the rungs as he had before. His career prospects have been truncated."

We're discussing opportunities for change and improvements here. It makes no sense to say that you are not asking for reductions to what changes or improvements are allowed just because they are not currently in the game and cannot therefore, by a certain semantic twist, be curtailed, reined in, or truncated.