Status: OUT
The read path's growing cost and risk as system complexity increases is managed by selectively shifting work to writes for high-frequency access paths — eager cache rebuilds, write-time index maintenance — concentrating write-time optimization exactly where the read-heavy default model creates the most pressure rather than applying a blanket strategy.
The codebase responds to escalating read-path burden by selectively overriding the default cost model at high-frequency access points
Depends on (SL): complexity-increases-both-read-cost-and-read-risk, cost-model-adapts-to-access-frequency