In a couple of recent short squibs, Reiss (2021a, 2021b) claims to have solved the related problems of describing chain shifts (e.g. Kirchner 1996) and saltations (see e.g. Hayes & White 2015) in Optimality Theory using underspecified underlying representations and Max-F/Dep-F featural faithfulness constraints. With a focus on the formal definitions of featural faithfulness constraints as they apply to fully-specified and underspecified representations, we show that (a) Reiss’s solutions do not in fact require Max-F/Dep-F constraints, and that (b) they require less underspecification than Reiss posits. Reiss’s singular focus on establishing “existence proofs” and the consequent inattention to the details of his solutions leads him to miss these facts. Time permitting, we will also show some preliminary analysis of the factorial typologies predicted by Reiss’s solutions and variations on them.