Mediator Pattern / Mediator God Object
Kind: tension
Record: tension:mediator-god-object-mediator-pattern
Canonical: Schema
"mediator-pattern" (design-patterns-core layer) is traded against "Mediator God Object" (design-patterns-core layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Mediator God Object" and choosing an explicit operating point.
Listed in Tensions, after Observer Pattern / Debuggability and before Command Pattern / Simplicity.