When a state machine case, a view, a service method, and a routing update all depend on each other, splitting the work into five separate commits creates broken intermediate states that won't compile. The right move is one vertical slice that is end-to-end functional — even if reviewers see a large diff. The 'keep it compilable' rule trumps 'thin atomic commits' when coupling is high.
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