Abstract Factory Pattern / Boilerplate
Kind: tension
Record: tension:abstract-factory-pattern-boilerplate
Canonical: Schema
"abstract-factory-pattern" (design-patterns-core layer) is traded against "Boilerplate" (structural-core layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Boilerplate" and choosing an explicit operating point.
Listed in Tensions, after Factory Method Pattern / Inheritance Complexity and before Builder Pattern / Boilerplate.