One thing you have to realize, is that "enterprise" architectures are as much about workforce management as they are about efficiency, or scalability, or et al.

One thing you have to realize, is that "enterprise" architectures are as much about workforce management as they are about efficiency, or scalability, or et al. There's a limit to how reduced data, and functions that work on data, and the transports and relationships between it all, can get. Let's call this residual mass "goo". Well, the goo has to go _somewhere_.