Every engineer can understand only a finite amount of complexity.
Every new service, dependency, approval path, exception, and abstraction consumes context.
Organizations should treat context like a scarce resource.
A system can be technically correct and organizationally unaffordable if too many people must understand too much before making safe changes.
Complexity does not only consume CPU. It consumes attention.
AI can summarize, search, and generate. But AI still needs context to reason safely.
If the organization cannot explain why systems exist, AI will infer. Sometimes that inference will be wrong.
Architecture reviews should ask:
Cloud spend is visible. Context spend is not.
Yet context exhaustion may be the real reason mature engineering organizations slow down.