Status: OUT
The GoF catalog achieves lifecycle-complete variation flexibility: systematic variation management extends across the full object lifecycle (from creation through behavioral adaptation) while the complete design flexibility system (23-pattern taxonomy with axis escape plus four behavioral modification dimensions) ensures no variation point at any lifecycle phase is unreachable.
Lifecycle-spanning variation plus complete design flexibility jointly eliminate variation dead zones
Depends on (SL): systematic-variation-spans-full-lifecycle, variation-lifecycle-complete-flexibility