Status: IN
The GoF's acknowledged departure from Christopher Alexander — sharing his observational method and template structure but lacking his generative pattern ordering — makes practitioner judgment structurally necessary: Alexander's patterns generate complete buildings through prescribed sequences, while GoF patterns compose into systems only when practitioners supply the sequencing that the catalog omits.
The absence of Alexander's generative ordering is the structural reason why expert judgment is central to the GoF system
Depends on (SL): gof-alexander-comparison, gof-patterns-not-complete-pattern-language, pattern-judgment-required