[christophilus]

Basically, premature abstraction / abstraction at the wrong boundaries coupled with the political power to force adoption of the bad abstraction. Yep. That’s an annoying attribute of working at a big corp. I prefer working in tiny teams and companies for this and many other reasons.

[aefalcon83]

Oh, I know a small company that is affected by this problem, but your description of the cause is spot on.