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by deterministic 1 day ago
So your argument is that no solution could satisfy your new requirement, not even if Facebook rewrote the entire system from scratch.

If that's the case, then your example doesn't really address what we're discussing: whether software can be designed to remain flexible under realistic requirement changes.

A stronger argument would be to give an example of a realistic requirement change that would force all possible software architecture to be rewritten from scratch. Do you have an example like that?