No wonder, as it's essentially a German IT project. And those are usually in the man made horrors beyond comprehension territory. (Source: I'm a German and have had the """""""joy""""""" of working on quiet a few local IT projects).

There's something in the German soul that makes them great at building cars. But the same thing makes for horrible software architects. My pet theory is that it's the relative freedom of software. And freedom (as in no restraints) is not something Germans tend to encounter much in their society.