Status: IN
The GoF practitioner experience is jointly shaped by judgment irreducibility (Alexander's generative gap + restraint principle) and systematic methodology (six selection strategies + seven application steps): irreducibility explains why judgment cannot be eliminated, while the methodology provides structured support that makes judgment tractable — together they define a practitioner discipline that is systematic without being mechanistic.
Judgment irreducibility and systematic methodology are not in tension but jointly define the character of GoF practice
Depends on (SL): judgment-irreducibility-grounds-restraint-infrastructure, gof-systematic-pattern-application-method, restraint-has-pervasive-compositional-infrastructure