Status: IN
The GoF's seven-step pattern application methodology and six pattern selection strategies exist precisely because judgment is irreducible: Alexander's generative gap and the restraint principle independently establish that no formal procedure can eliminate the need for practitioner judgment, so the methodology must be a structured aid to judgment (systematic but not deterministic) rather than an algorithm.
The systematic-but-not-deterministic character of the seven-step method is explained by the independent convergence on judgment irreducibility
Depends on (SL): judgment-irreducibility-grounds-restraint-infrastructure, gof-systematic-pattern-application-method