C.31:9 - Consequences

Benefits:

• Modularity becomes action-guiding without becoming one fake score.
• Cheap repair remains possible before measurement.
• Characteristic, declared-measurement-basis, comparability-basis, proxy-risk, and subject-pattern boundaries are visible.
• DSM, MOSA, platform, product-line, and architecture-operation sources can inform practice without importing their ontology wholesale.

Costs:

• Familiar score language often has to be downgraded to report-only use.
• Cross-case comparison requires additional C.16, C.25, G.2, comparator, evidence, or decision claim.
• Some attractive “complexity” statements need an exact characteristic, a lens-backed interpretation, or a residual cue.