Flyweight Pattern / Complexity
Kind: tension
Record: tension:complexity-flyweight-pattern
Canonical: Schema
"flyweight-pattern" (design-patterns-core layer) is traded against "Complexity" (human-factors layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Complexity" and choosing an explicit operating point.
Listed in Tensions, after Composite Pattern / Type Safety and before Scalability / Simplicity.