Yeah, I really don't like the monkey analogy, but setting that aside for a second, this is exactly why "software architects" exist--good design requires cohesiv

Yeah, I really don't like the monkey analogy, but setting that aside for a second, this is exactly why "software architects" exist--good design requires cohesive vision, and that's almost impossible to accomplish when designing by committee. (I have seen it work well, but only with people that had been working together happily for a long time, often with a few design failures before hitting their stride.) Incidentally, this is more-or-less the same reason we have architects for real-life buildings.