Declarative Configuration / Dynamic Complexity
Kind: tension
Record: tension:declarative-configuration-dynamic-complexity
Canonical: Schema
"declarative-configuration" (declarative-core layer) is traded against "Dynamic Complexity" (declarative-core layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Dynamic Complexity" and choosing an explicit operating point.
Listed in Tensions, after Metadata-Driven Design / Debuggability and before Convention over Configuration / Explicitness.