Sometimes it feels like a desperate attempt to defer working on some part of the problem a team doesn't know how to solve. Usually some domain specific thing no

Sometimes it feels like a desperate attempt to defer working on some part of the problem a team doesn't know how to solve. Usually some domain specific thing no one wants to think about. So onion layers get put in wrapped around that bit without actually solving it, just creating an abstraction by which the rest of the system will use the "magic". But often the abstraction overconstrains the domain specific magic through ignorance, so it all has to change when someone gets around to adding it. Seen this over and over.