Status: IN
The read path's active convergence role (healing divergence via repair, computing deferred state via lazy evaluation, interpreting metadata-as-deletion) grows in responsibility as distribution complexity increases, yet the co-designed test infrastructure validates structural write-path properties most effectively — creating a widening gap where the component bearing maximum correctness responsibility has the weakest verification coverage relative to its burden.
Architectural tension — the most critical component is the least verified because structural testability co-design favors the simpler write path
Depends on (SL): reads-are-active-convergence-engines, growing-read-complexity-outpaces-test-coverage