Every current architecture is a good one, until there's enough support to replace it; it is then, clearly a poor architecture - always has been. More seriously

Every current architecture is a good one, until there's enough support to replace it; it is then, clearly a poor architecture - always has been. More seriously, creating architectures in a systematic way produces 'good' architectures more often than not. Have a look at the Unified Process[0] for an approach. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Process https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Process