Fred Brooks where spot on in his thoughs regarding essential (as in inherent) complexity. I think that BPEL thankfully died just a couple of years ago, but not

Fred Brooks where spot on in his thoughs regarding essential (as in inherent) complexity. I think that BPEL thankfully died just a couple of years ago, but not thanks to some globally aquired insight but rather because a new batch of developers isn't quite there yet so they are busy learning and reinventing basic stuff, but now at 'internet scale'