path dependency
C1CEFR level
65/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
The way earlier choices constrain a firm's later options, locking it onto a trajectory that is hard to reverse.
Our legacy stack is pure path dependency; every new feature has to bend around a decision made a decade ago.
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