SYSE.5:9 - Consequences

Engineers gain alternatives that can survive contact with physical realization, integration, procurement, and operation. Functional freedom remains tied to stated bearer claims and use conditions. Supplier claims and AI-generated candidates become inspectable inputs. Wrong-use cases, interface gaps, unallocated contributions, and unsupported realization dependencies appear early enough to change the architecture choice.

The cost is maintaining correspondence among several selected structures and qualifying claims by use, configuration, and evidence. Candidate diversity also costs modeling and specialist Work. Those costs are bounded by the decision question and stop rule: stop with decision-sufficient alternatives and the first unsupported feasibility dependency.