State Pattern / Class Proliferation
Kind: tension
Record: tension:class-proliferation-state-pattern
Canonical: Schema
"state-pattern" (design-patterns-core layer) is traded against "Class Proliferation" (design-patterns-core layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Class Proliferation" and choosing an explicit operating point.
Listed in Tensions, after Command Pattern / Simplicity and before Chain of Responsibility Pattern / Traceability.