Graceful Degradation / Consistency / Feature Completeness
Kind: tension
Record: tension:consistency-feature-completeness-graceful-degradation
Canonical: Schema
"graceful-degradation" (correctness-core layer) is traded against "Consistency / Feature Completeness" (correctness-core layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Consistency / Feature Completeness" and choosing an explicit operating point.
Listed in Tensions, after Fail Secure / Availability and before Fault Tolerance / Cost.