Soft Forks and Rigid Code

The living protocol upgrades.
The dead one says "code is law" while the code rots.
Flexibility is not weakness—
it's the difference between evolving and becoming a museum.
Immutable and maintained? Powerful.
Immutable and abandoned? A tomb.
The rigid smart contract shatters on the first exploit.
The yielding one patches, adapts, survives.
Soft wood bends in the storm.
The stiff branch snaps.