A lot of the most annoying and time-consuming abstractions at my company are, ironically, geared towards maintainability/extendability concerns. We have wrappe

A lot of the most annoying and time-consuming abstractions at my company are, ironically, geared towards maintainability/extendability concerns. We have wrappers around generic web service callers that rely on factories that create classes that convert between web service objects and domain objects, all wired together using interfaces for each service class and an IoC container, with its own XML configuration file. The irony is that if the web service were to change its interface, you'd have to change like 10 files instead of like.. a single conversion function somewhere. And to begin with you had to create those 10 files in the first place. It's absolute fucking madness.