We still use UML for illustrative documentation purposes leading the prose, sequence diagrams, state machines, activities. We barely ever use class diagrams. We

We still use UML for illustrative documentation purposes leading the prose, sequence diagrams, state machines, activities. We barely ever use class diagrams. We don't draw, we let PlantUML do that. We only use UML because, well, PlantUML outputs those diagrams. If its output were non-UML sequence diagrams, state machines or activity diagrams, we'd be using that for documentation purposes. That's why I whole-heartedly disagree with "At best you’ve got a cumbersome system that’s significantly worse than using a graphical editor" from the article. I'll take succinct text over your graphical editor any day of the week, and my colleagues agree with me. Anyways. All hail plantuml ;)