fix(verifier): stop wrapping a top-level eventually in always

`eventually(p).within(300, "seconds")` as a property meant "within 300 seconds
of every step", which spawned an obligation per step with its own resolved
deadline. A 553-step run carried 553 of them and serialized a 75 KB residual.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Fj4wJUikdABuMQEETwW55J
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@@ -182,14 +182,20 @@ func (v *Verifier) Load(source string) error {
}
// buildFormula walks the formula-spec registry and produces a Go ltl.Formula
// tree rooted at the given spec index. Specs built at the top level are
// always wrapped in Always unless the top-level spec is already an Always.
// tree rooted at the given spec index.
//
// A top-level spec that is not already a temporal obligation is wrapped in
// Always, which is what an author writing a bare predicate or a combinator
// means. An always is left alone, and so is an eventually: wrapping
// `eventually(p).within(5, "minutes")` would turn one reachability goal into
// "within five minutes of every step", a different and far stronger property.
func (v *Verifier) buildFormula(rootIndex int) (ltl.Formula, error) {
inner, err := v.buildFormulaNode(rootIndex)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
if _, ok := inner.(ltl.AlwaysFormula); ok {
switch inner.(type) {
case ltl.AlwaysFormula, ltl.EventuallyFormula:
return inner, nil
}
return ltl.Always(inner), nil