Versioning / Version Sprawl
Kind: tension
Record: tension:version-sprawl-versioning
Canonical: Schema
"versioning" (contracts-core layer) is traded against "Version Sprawl" (contracts-core layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Version Sprawl" and choosing an explicit operating point.
Listed in Tensions, after Forward Compatibility / Strong Validation and before Protocol Compatibility / Protocol Optimization.