IMHO people aren't forgetting it — it's pretty commonly the other way around. Anecdotally, the people I see advocating for spaghetti architecture are often utt

IMHO people aren't forgetting it — it's pretty commonly the other way around. Anecdotally, the people I see advocating for spaghetti architecture are often utterly convinced they're solving some critical problem. Conversations with stakeholders then turn into fearmongering — often helped by the fact that most stakeholders don't care about architectural nuance — and it becomes easy to wave off any competing simpler architectures by deriding them as "taking on tech debt." In general, it's surprisingly easy to play corporate politics to bring a convoluted architecture into reality.