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59.2If you can hear it as a different subdivision, you've gone too far
This is the easiest practical rule.
A laid-back 2& should still unquestionably sound like:
2&.
If it sounds like:
3
or a sixteenth later,
that is no longer pocket.
That is rhythmic displacement.