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Very well put.

I've always been interested in software architecture and upon graduating from university, I was shocked to see the 'Software Architect' title disappear. Software devs have been treating software architecture like phrenology or reading tea leaves.

But those who kept learning and refining their architecture skills during this time look at software very differently.

It's not like the industry has been making small, non-obvious mistakes; they've veen making massive, glaringly obvious mistakes! Anticipating a reasonable range of future requirements in your code and adhering to the basic principles of high-cohesion and loose-coupling is really not that hard.

I'm taken aback whenever I hear someone treating software architecture as some elusive quest akin to 'finding Bigfoot'.