The real-time lakehouse is not one engine. It is a contract between streams, table commits, query paths, and freshness expectations.
REST Catalog V2 LoadTable work matters because clients and catalogs need explicit contracts, not optimistic assumptions.
The Rust versus C++ discussion is really about table-layer execution safety, interoperability, and performance envelopes.
Server-side commit deconflicting is about moving concurrency control closer to the catalog contract.
