I am sorry to be tangental, as I am not the GP of this comment thread. However, I am just curious, since you seem to have a very rational opinion on this topic

I am sorry to be tangental, as I am not the GP of this comment thread. However, I am just curious, since you seem to have a very rational opinion on this topic, what do you think about Domain-Driven Design? It's not technically CA, but from what I have read, the two can commonly be found together. My understanding that performance issues with DDD are also not a guarantee, but performance is often the first thing sacrificed in order to maintain "domain purity." In other words, if you were to develop a size > medium project, what would you use as an architecture? I only ask because I have been attempting to implement DDD after attempting CA, and I am not convinced the juice is worth the squeeze for either one of the patterns. I am not saying that either design pattern cannot work, but at the same time, I also wouldn't say that a Rube-Goldberg Machine cannot work either.