No, I see your point. It's just that in my experience, the friction didn't do much to prevent coupling, because the friction was just that you had to write a l

No, I see your point. It's just that in my experience, the friction didn't do much to prevent coupling, because the friction was just that you had to write a lot of boilerplate code - not hard, just boring - and they were willing to do that rather than having a design meeting with me...