Core principle. Converge on the target architecture; do not preserve smooth intermediate states with throwaway compatibility code.
Applies during planned rewrites and migrations with explicit phase boundaries. It is what licenses planned, scoped breakage during pstack-architect fill-in, and the sibling of pstack-principle-migrate-callers-then-delete-legacy-apis.
See Also
- pstack-poteto-mode — indexes this principle inline and reads the index at task start.
- pstack — the twenty-three-principle set this belongs to.