… and dogma. There was a lot of blather about hour Everyone Serious needed this complex structure and a lot of people superstitiously followed it without asking whether e.g. advice from a 2k engineer megaproject in a different industry was applicable to their 3 person in-house app.

The modern counterpart is probably scalability — I see a lot of parallels in all of the Google/Facebook-envy applied to “big data” problems which can fit on an iPad.