Some more: - Compliance, in the financial, legal or data sense - increases code complexity greatly, and warps the architecture of the system under its weight

Some more: - Compliance, in the financial, legal or data sense - increases code complexity greatly, and warps the architecture of the system under its weight - Policy engines: who's allowed and not allowed to do what, limits That's a whole lotta scope beyond the core competency of the program that you cannot outsource.