I even wonder why the word "monolith" got such a bad connotation that it is now used synonymously to "big ball of mud". I mean, monoliths in the original sense

I even wonder why the word "monolith" got such a bad connotation that it is now used synonymously to "big ball of mud". I mean, monoliths in the original sense (Washington Monument, that 2001 - A Space Odyssee moon thing, ...) are all but messy.