Axioms

Complexity does not disappear. It migrates.
Remove it from architecture and it appears in people.
Hide it in interfaces and it accumulates in process.
Architecture determines where complexity resides.

Human attention is limited. Data is not.
Systems that ignore this externalize cost into errors,
delays, and manual overrides. Cognition is a hard constraint.

Automation is execution without understanding.
Intelligence requires explicit constraints and bounded context.
Without them automation simply accelerates noise.

Control that requires continuous attention is not control.
It is an unstable equilibrium. Good systems hold on their own and spend attention on meaning, not maintenance.

A system that cannot explain its state cannot be considered reliable. Explainability is part of architecture, not external documentation.