I regret I have but one upvote to give for this comment! In the hallway conversations around this problem at its most abstract, we have often used the GC analog

I regret I have but one upvote to give for this comment! In the hallway conversations around this problem at its most abstract, we have often used the GC analogy (aside: I am opposed to GC in systems software for essentially this same reason); it's good to know that this observation was being made by domain experts a long time ago! Thanks for the link!