Status: OUT
Lifecycle-spanning variation flexibility is supported by the fact that the GoF catalog transcends its own Creational-Structural-Behavioral classification: the four-dimensional modification space crosses structural-behavioral boundaries (e.g., the wrapping spectrum spans Structural Proxy/Decorator to Behavioral Strategy), and the variation taxonomy cuts across all 23 patterns orthogonally to their traditional categories — which function as pedagogical scaffolding rather than architectural constraints — facilitating variation management at every lifecycle stage regardless of which classification a pattern nominally belongs to.
Classification transcendence is the structural precondition for lifecycle-spanning variation flexibility
Depends on (SL): variation-lifecycle-complete-flexibility, gof-catalog-transcends-own-classification