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[–] eager_eagle 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Getting a bit in between the lines, "should" more often than not reads to me as "it's expected to work and we're working towards it".

While "could" sounds like a shrug: "it may work, but I/we have little to no control over it".