Factory Method Pattern / Inheritance Complexity
Kind: tension
Record: tension:factory-method-pattern-inheritance-complexity
Canonical: Schema
"factory-method-pattern" (design-patterns-core layer) is traded against "Inheritance Complexity" (design-patterns-core layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Inheritance Complexity" and choosing an explicit operating point.
Listed in Tensions, after Factory Pattern / Simplicity and before Abstract Factory Pattern / Boilerplate.