Can’t edit my post, but the term I was trying to remember was “conceptual integrity”, coined by Fred Brooks in a The Mythical Man-Month. Here’s a c2 wiki page

Can’t edit my post, but the term I was trying to remember was “conceptual integrity”, coined by Fred Brooks in a The Mythical Man-Month. Here’s a c2 wiki page on the subject: https://wiki.c2.com/?ConceptualIntegrity https://wiki.c2.com/?ConceptualIntegrity