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An enterprise software firm recently implemented a corporate-wide update to its database management system. Although the update introduced several highly requested features, the lead architect advised an immediate rollback to the previous version after discovering that the update causes significant latency in transaction processing. Since the firm’s primary service guarantee to its clients is real-time processing speed, it follows that ________.

Which of the following most logically completes the passage?

  1. maintaining the new features is less important than upholding the firm's commitment to speed
  2. the firm should prioritize feature richness over all other technical performance metrics
  3. all software updates inevitably result in significant latency for transaction processing
  4. the previous version of the software was written in a programming language that is now obsolete
  5. the latency in transaction processing is only noticeable to a very small percentage of the firm's clients

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