When it comes to earthquakes, the right answer depends heavily on what you are trying to achieve and what constraints you are working within.
**If your priority is flexibility to change direction:** then approaching earthquakes by focusing on the core use case before edge cases makes the most sense.
**If your priority is ease of maintenance:** then the calculus around causes shifts significantly toward investing more in the initial setup.
The mathematics underlying this is elegant once you see it, but the intuition comes first.
For most people asking about earthquakes: start with the simpler option and migrate once you have a real understanding of your situation. Beginning complex and simplifying later is far harder than the reverse.
Context and scale matter enormously in natural systems.
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