Status: IN
Forward-only design specifically compensates for the architecture's most critical verification gap: the read path bears growing responsibility that outpaces test coverage, but forward-only semantics prevent unverified read-path behaviors from causing regression — temporal gaps in the least-tested component cannot propagate backward.
Forward-only targets exactly where the testing strategy is weakest — the growing unverified read-path responsibility
Depends on (SL): forward-only-preserves-correctness-despite-accepted-gaps, read-path-responsibility-exceeds-verification