[hirvi74]

> Services/modules organised by infrastructural layer rather than by feature.

That is actually true to the original CA as far as I am aware. The "veritcal slices" style of development came after.

> with the cost of this crushing accidental complexity that made it hard for everyone to hold everything in their heads, not just for me but also for the smart guys on the team.

What? You don't like editing 50 files every time a new column is added to a DB table?

> And it felt like the entire tradeoff was for the purpose of stopping smoothbrains from adding the ORM to an API endpoint

There is nothing wrong with this, and I will die on this hill. The entire purpose of CA was for people to make money off book sales, lectures, and consulting. Notice how every single on of the people involved with promoting CA have absolutely nothing noteworthy to their names. In fact, you might be surprised who was one of the consultants on a major failure of a solution... *cough cough*

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