My personal opinion about the Big Ball of Mud is that it lacks the visual component makes problems immediately apparent: No one dares to enter a building with a

My personal opinion about the Big Ball of Mud is that it lacks the visual component makes problems immediately apparent: No one dares to enter a building with a big visible crack along one of its edges, but if such a thing existed in software, management would just tell the team to power through it. The moment that someone manages to crack the software visualization problem for the layperson, would be the (moment + delay) that considerable effort would actually be invested in software architecture.