Error Handling / Simplicity
Kind: tension
Record: tension:error-handling-simplicity
Canonical: Schema
"error-handling" (correctness-core layer) is traded against "Simplicity" (human-factors layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Simplicity" and choosing an explicit operating point.
Listed in Tensions, after Robustness Principle / Strict Validation and before Error Boundaries / Hidden Errors.