[saltedmd5]

A lot of the time it's not even really a compromise. This is why it makes no sense to debate about eventual consistency - the implications are entirely situational.

This kind of buzzword is harmful; it leads to overthinking, over-engineering, misunderstanding and a lack of focus on what matters, which is implementing solutions that are appropriate for the current context.

It's also a fallacy (or an artefact of enterprise thinking) that you need to either adopt eventual consistency or not. Modern systems are increasingly webs of loosely connected components and subsystems where some processes may be immediately consistent and others not. This is something that we take for granted most of the time (e.g. a search index is almost always "eventually consistent" and nobody would ever think to question that) until we start talking about the concept in an abstract/contrived fashion.