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The best category systems adapt as you learn more about what you are organizing.
Some schemas should be marked as outdated and replaced rather than patched indefinitely.
Sometimes you need the new schema to handle cases the old schema covered.
When reality repeatedly contradicts your schema the schema needs updating.
Some schemas need rapid evolution while others remain stable for years. The velocity at which a schema should change is not uniform — it depends on the domain. A schema governing JavaScript frameworks must update quarterly; a schema governing basic arithmetic can remain static for a lifetime. Treating all schemas with the same update cadence is a structural error: you will either exhaust yourself revising stable knowledge or cling to outdated models in fast-moving domains.