Enterprise architecture done well; but the tooling is incredibly difficult, it's expensive and you need a culture devoted to engineering discipline over raw pro

Enterprise architecture done well; but the tooling is incredibly difficult, it's expensive and you need a culture devoted to engineering discipline over raw productivity. Other industries manage this just fine: manufacturing and defense contracting are two that come to mind. Both industries have pretty good work / life balance for their employees. Tech is just worse because we haven't unionized like both of those industries did, so the companies are able to operate in a way that is more exploitative of its workers. I think that's actually the source of the outsized margins we see in tech. Agile is just shorthand for "it's too expensive to coordinate things so we'll just make our engineers do that on top of being engineers". The solution is to unionize and start to demand some standards in engineering discipline that allow people to have both a career and a life.