[drugme]

I don't think people are qualified to reject this pattern unless they've spent some serious time working in these ecosystems.

Fine - but it isn't a matter of rejecting or accepting; but rather of understanding. And if someone isn't "qualified" to reject a certain architectural pattern... then they probably won't be very good at implementing it either.

So on balance I'd rather be in an environment where people are allowed to "reject" what they don't fully understand yet -- rather than (pretend to) go along with it (on the basis of some article they vaguely read about it, or "because X said so.")

[he0001]

I think you are right, though doesn’t your conclusion mean that this pattern, and any pattern that isn’t “simple enough”, is automatically disqualified? I do think that any pattern that is more complex than your business case is always the wrong one.