Again, you're creating a No True Scotsman. Cloud Foundry is a multi-million SLOC distributed system developed by dozens of teams over many years, one week at a

Again, you're creating a No True Scotsman. Cloud Foundry is a multi-million SLOC distributed system developed by dozens of teams over many years, one week at a time. Yet it has an architecture that evolves on a multi-year scale. Nothing in agile precludes architecture. What's precluded is ignoring change. I don't know what else to tell you. A counterexample to your universal claim exists. So it's not universal.