It fulfills complementary anti-patterns both with the developer and the management. The developer that built it actually is smart, since you have to be to make

It fulfills complementary anti-patterns both with the developer and the management. The developer that built it actually is smart, since you have to be to make something so bizarre and complex actually function at all. They are also full of ego, which gives them the need to prove to everyone how smart they are by building something very complex, whether the problem calls for it or not. What they lack is the wisdom to refrain from inappropriately trying to prove how smart they are and building something that is easy to troubleshoot and maintain. They are able to stay where they are because management has their own egoic need to believe that they are employing and in charge of geniuses to demonstrate to their own peers how awesome they are. Instead of actually being awesome by coming up with a good business plan, executing well on it, and recognizing that your software problem is probably perfectly ordinary, and even if it isn't, you only hurt things by hiring ego-driven builders who want to build overly complex things instead of solving the problem at hand as simply as possible.