[vladsanchez]

I want to Upvote this more than once. So much facts into a condensed into a small essay. Good job!

Money quote: "Event-sourced architectures like these suffer many such isolation anomalies, which constantly gaslight users with “time travel” behavior that we’re all familiar with."

[rowland66]

Maybe I am just old because I had to Google what gaslighting meant, but as best I can tell getting gaslighted by your system architecture is really stretching the meaning of the term gaslighting to the point of absurdity.

[vladsanchez]

I concur, but we both got it's a metaphor. ;)