[llanowarelves]

They are great because you can find so many problems at much lower cost earlier. And communication across domain and skill levels.

Maybe their unpopularity among developers stems from trauma of the UML+OOO+Waterfall days and an overcorrection in the opposite direction.

Or many more are doing it and just not talking about it since it's not as exciting as code.

[knsv]

Good point. Finding a middle ground is the way to go. Keeping enough details in the diagrams to keep them useful but without the extra overhead. You cant keep all the details in the diagrams, they belong in the code.