Status: IN
Naming drift is the canonical instance of permanently frozen engineering debt: names serve no functional role at any layer of the architecture (neither runtime execution nor test harness depend on semantic correctness of names), while the isolation mechanism that freezes all engineering debt simultaneously ensures naming errors are undetectable without manual inspection — making naming the purest case of a defect that is simultaneously consequenceless and uncorrectable.
Depth-7 instantiation: naming concretely demonstrates both the non-functionality (depth 6) and the permanence (depth 5) that define frozen debt
Depends on (SL): names-serve-no-functional-role, engineering-debt-permanently-frozen