Architects that propose pragmatic and boring solutions are usually not hired. It's the emperor's new clothes, companies like the idea of an architect who comes

Architects that propose pragmatic and boring solutions are usually not hired. It's the emperor's new clothes, companies like the idea of an architect who comes with some revolutionary new concept that will lead to a breakthrough that finally will make everybody rich. If they don't understand the architect's idea, so much the better because then it must be really state of the art.