This is anecdotal evidence but I think this is not an isolated story. In 2001 I was working as real-time/embedded software engineer in France, our project was

This is anecdotal evidence but I think this is not an isolated story. In 2001 I was working as real-time/embedded software engineer in France, our project was still running on old hardware, mostly C and asm on 68k. One day before the summer vacations we were asked to come and see a full-day presentation of the future. The presentation was made by an other team, working with embedded Java for microchips and ATM, UML and Rational was at the center of everything. It was so unreal I had a hard time staying calm. It was the day I decided to switch career, and that I would quit on the spot if they forced us to use anything as awful as those "methods".