[hotcrossbunny]

I think it is often more helpful to ask the question "To what extent is XDD useful in context Y?". This firstly shifts the discussion away from whether something is universally good or bad (the space of bandwagon riders and hype curve surfers), and secondly avoids trying to comment on what one believes to be the popular opinion at some particular point in time.

Perhaps the difficulty tho is that DDD in particular is a collection of ideas that I would opine might have quite different profiles in terms of both their applicability, and range of design scope. Ubiquitous Naming seems like its pretty widely applicable, and by its very nature is about building consensus within teams, whereas Repository, Factory, Service, Aggregate feel like they could be the dishes served up at some Object Oriented dinner party where the guests could quite justifiably argue long into the night about what the best model design should be.