Statecharts / Tooling Complexity
Kind: tension
Record: tension:statecharts-tooling-complexity
Canonical: Schema
"statecharts" (design-patterns-core layer) is traded against "Tooling Complexity" (human-factors layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Tooling Complexity" and choosing an explicit operating point.
Listed in Tensions, after Finite State Machine / State Explosion and before Factory Pattern / Simplicity.