# Statecharts / Tooling Complexity

> "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.

Record: `tension:statecharts-tooling-complexity`
Kind: tension
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema#tension-statecharts-tooling-complexity

## tensions-with

- [Statecharts](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/statecharts.md)
- [Tooling Complexity](https://banes-lab.com/records/lex/tooling-complexity.md)