Status: IN
Defect confinement is a direct structural consequence of the elimination principle's operation through duality: elimination removes the coupling channels (validation paths, shared imports, cross-module state) through which engineering defects could propagate to runtime behavior, and since streaming — elimination's dual — requires none of these channels, the confinement is not merely observed but mechanistically explained by the same force that shapes the solution space.
Orthogonal stabilization confines defects but doesn't explain WHY they're confined; the elimination/streaming duality provides the mechanism — elimination removes exactly the channels through which propagation would occur
Depends on (SL): defect-confinement-from-orthogonal-stabilization, elimination-and-streaming-are-dual-descriptions