Status: IN
The read path's correctness burden grows with distribution complexity: single-node reads handle lazy computation and soft-delete interpretation, while distributed reads additionally perform repair, tombstone filtering, and multi-version conflict resolution — the more distributed the system, the more reads pay.
deletion strategy scaling from soft-delete to tombstones directly increases what the read path must interpret and reconcile
Depends on (SL): reads-bear-full-correctness-burden, deletion-strategy-scales-with-distribution