diff --git a/.swiftlint.yml b/.swiftlint.yml
index 1b53e12..826f9a3 100644
--- a/.swiftlint.yml
+++ b/.swiftlint.yml
@@ -14,5 +14,10 @@ force_cast: error
 line_length:
   warning: 180
   error: 180
+# Exhaustive switches over closed enums are the intended way to make
+# impossible states unrepresentable; counting their cases as complexity
+# pushes code toward split mappings with trapping defaults instead.
+cyclomatic_complexity:
+  ignores_case_statements: true
 trailing_comma:
   mandatory_comma: true
diff --git a/Sources/Streaming/Streaming.Scanner.swift b/Sources/Streaming/Streaming.Scanner.swift
index ee7db43..c61bb4d 100644
--- a/Sources/Streaming/Streaming.Scanner.swift
+++ b/Sources/Streaming/Streaming.Scanner.swift
@@ -56,13 +56,11 @@ extension PureYAML.Streaming.Token {
 }
 
 extension PureYAML.Streaming.Token.Kind {
-    /// A mechanical 1:1 mapping over all 22 `TokenType` cases, split across
-    /// three initializers purely to keep each switch's cyclomatic complexity
-    /// under the project's lint limit; the split carries no meaning beyond
-    /// that; each `default:` either forwards to the next initializer (the
-    /// cases it doesn't itself handle) or, in the last one, is truly
-    /// unreachable because the first two together already handle every
-    /// non-payload-bearing case.
+    /// A mechanical 1:1 mapping over all 22 `TokenType` cases in one
+    /// exhaustive switch: no `default`, so adding a `TokenType` case is a
+    /// compile error here instead of a runtime trap. The lint's complexity
+    /// metric ignores case statements precisely for closed-enum mappings
+    /// like this one.
     init(_ type: PureYAML.Parsing.LibYAML.TokenType) {
         switch type {
         case .streamStart: self = .streamStart
@@ -73,12 +71,6 @@ extension PureYAML.Streaming.Token.Kind {
         case .blockMappingStart: self = .blockMappingStart
         case .blockEnd: self = .blockEnd
         case .blockEntry: self = .blockEntry
-        default: self = Self(structural: type)
-        }
-    }
-
-    private init(structural type: PureYAML.Parsing.LibYAML.TokenType) {
-        switch type {
         case .flowSequenceStart: self = .flowSequenceStart
         case .flowMappingStart: self = .flowMappingStart
         case .flowSequenceEnd: self = .flowSequenceEnd
@@ -87,19 +79,12 @@ extension PureYAML.Streaming.Token.Kind {
         case .key: self = .key
         case .value: self = .value
         case .reservedDirective: self = .reservedDirective
-        default: self = Self(payload: type)
-        }
-    }
-
-    private init(payload type: PureYAML.Parsing.LibYAML.TokenType) {
-        switch type {
         case let .versionDirective(major, minor): self = .versionDirective(major: major, minor: minor)
         case let .tagDirective(handle, prefix): self = .tagDirective(handle: handle, prefix: prefix)
         case let .anchor(name): self = .anchor(name: name)
         case let .alias(name): self = .alias(name: name)
         case let .tag(handle, suffix): self = .tag(handle: handle, suffix: suffix)
         case let .scalar(value, style): self = .scalar(value: value, style: PureYAML.Streaming.Token.ScalarStyle(style))
-        default: preconditionFailure("unreachable: init(_:) and init(structural:) handle every non-payload TokenType case")
         }
     }
 }