UML problem was cultural too. It's a crowd who valued too much heavy tooling (if not bloat). The more, the better (just like early java days) Graphs are natura

UML problem was cultural too. It's a crowd who valued too much heavy tooling (if not bloat). The more, the better (just like early java days) Graphs are naturally useful, but UML quickly became a bad investment. That said it was a time where projects were larger and communication was harder so the emphasis on large diagrams was probably enough of an improvement over potential chaos.