Status: OUT
The GoF achieves infrastructure-backed lifecycle variation: the complete spatiotemporal infrastructure (creational lifecycle + recursive structures + temporal state capture) provides the concrete substrate upon which lifecycle-complete variation flexibility operates, ensuring that systematic variation management has physical backing at every lifecycle phase.
Depth-8 — connecting infrastructure (depth-7, the physical substrate) with variation flexibility (depth-7, the design activity) establishes that variation is not just abstractly possible but concretely supported
Depends on (SL): complete-spatiotemporal-design-infrastructure, variation-lifecycle-complete-flexibility