And yet, many an architecture review is all about a group of people trying to justify their existence by adding features. I was in a design review this week whe

And yet, many an architecture review is all about a group of people trying to justify their existence by adding features. I was in a design review this week where 4 different architects were involved, along with the expected assortment of managers and product people. Every single suggestion was an addition. Having written systems like the one in question for decades, I considered the initial proposal as massively overengineered in the first place: An excuse to have a project that lets someone get upleveled in the next review cycle.