Status: OUT
Streaming is the specific mechanism through which algorithmic quality outpaces engineering quality: it achieves the strongest convergence (via lowest adoption barrier) while requiring the least engineering infrastructure (no preprocessing, no coordination, no shared abstractions), making the quality inversion an inevitable structural consequence rather than a contingent outcome.
crosses the paradigm-dominance and quality-analysis branches; streaming's low-barrier dominance is the causal channel for the algorithmic > engineering quality gap
Depends on (SL): streaming-dominates-because-lowest-adoption-barrier, quality-inversion-algorithmic-vs-engineering