> The hard and painful truth is that business-oriented programming is underappreciated by business and unattractive to talented programmers, and so almost a complete non-starter. The good people tend to fight for a while (for more refactoring, more autonomy) but eventually disengage or go elsewhere . . .

I'm at the "disengage" point. The higher ups aren't heeding my warnings that what we are doing is not sustainable. Eventually the system will enter a permanent broken state and I just don't care anymore.