He's bringing out the men made of straw because there's a culture in many places, including my work, of YAGNI. We did not properly federate many of our service

He's bringing out the men made of straw because there's a culture in many places, including my work, of YAGNI. We did not properly federate many of our services and aystems, it is costing us tons of person hours to work around or deal with as our org chart grows. However, it's exactly the kind of thing that unlike Facebook - it is difficult to get metrics on how many dollars it will save or create, so it doesn't get fixed and people still wonder why anyone would care enough to fix it.