It was replaced by corporate gatekeepers. Now instead of having an architect you go to before you commit to a design, you simply do whatever you feel like, ofte

It was replaced by corporate gatekeepers. Now instead of having an architect you go to before you commit to a design, you simply do whatever you feel like, often without even having an idea what the end result is supposed to look like. You spend 6 months working on it and then right before you go live, you have to pass it in front of the gatekeepers, and they say, "What the fuck is this disaster? No, you can't launch, Jesus Christ." And then the cycle repeats until it's not a tire fire. Nobody on an agile team today thinks to ask the Systems Engineers, DevOps Engineers, Architects, etc, whether their design might need changes. They have been told they alone are responsible for building the thing, so they steam right ahead. There is no adult in the room to get them to do due diligence, so it just doesn't get done. So Architects are now just a silo of red tape.