Currently dealing with this situation, shiny new architect declares Kafka as "the one true way" and forces all services to use it. Fast forward 12 months and w

Currently dealing with this situation, shiny new architect declares Kafka as "the one true way" and forces all services to use it. Fast forward 12 months and we have a terrible, complex, non-scalable, system, which should have just been a really simple REST service but instead we just have another point of failure. Oh, and they quit so have no idea that their designs were trash.