[Ididntdothis]

Totally agree. If you don't know to code and but are an architect you pretty much live in permanent la-la land. I bet on paper I could architect a whole company within a few hours. It would look good on paper but in practice it wouldn't work because there are a ton of implementation details that make my design impossible or hard to achieve. Much better to empower the devs to be involved in architecture from the start so they can give real-world input quickly. I have seen it so many times where managers and architects decided on an unsuitable stack because all they do is listen to sales reps and read whitepapers.