There’s a lot of social status and perception-shaping tied up in who gets to do what innovation. I’ve noticed that the very same ilk of leadership/managers who

There’s a lot of social status and perception-shaping tied up in who gets to do what innovation. I’ve noticed that the very same ilk of leadership/managers who would balk at the complexity of adding a linter or json schema validation and cite “someday, that would be nice, but for now we’ve got to get quick wins and ship features” would not hesitate to let a golden-boy architect who’s also a drinking buddy add a CQRS microservice written in Go communicating in some hand-rolled bespoke protocol—-just because it wins some folks cool points.