I've worked in enterprise software for 15+ years. Enterprises don't have complex and unique workflows, they generally have lazy and shitty workflows because peo

I've worked in enterprise software for 15+ years. Enterprises don't have complex and unique workflows, they generally have lazy and shitty workflows because people don't care. The reason why enterprise software sucks is many-fold. My top reasons are the following: 1) Enterprise customers spend a lot of money and thus demand a lot from its suppliers. Sales and PMs and VPs will do whatever it takes to make their numbers and make their bonuses, so they will sacrifice software architecture for customer happiness. I'm not saying this is wrong, but it's the reality. 2) Software shouldn't exist for 20 years. Imagine writing a book where the authors change every 2-3 years, and the incentive was to write the best chapter and then leave afterwards. By the end of the book, it's probably going to be a shitty book. The only pieces of software where it works are things like operating systems like Linux where you have someone like Linus who really does care and has been around since the beginning. Even Microsoft fell into this trap, look at Windows Vista which was a disaster.