> the people who were attracted to it in the mid 90s were the same people who were poor programmers and were looking for any excuse to avoid writing code Sound

> the people who were attracted to it in the mid 90s were the same people who were poor programmers and were looking for any excuse to avoid writing code Sounds like the same people who became Agile consultants in the early 2000's. Perhaps they realized activity and sequence diagrams can get fairly complicated soon enough, so they looked for a bandwagon requiring no technical chops whatever.