As long as the belief sustains, and the more general awareness and fomo spreads, the value will rise. Until....

Yes when your spring boot containerised app, running in k8s, itself on openstack, on the jvm, feeding otel metrics, that itself is a cluster of microservices that itself is a distributed monolith, talking to a pgo postgres dB isn't performing as expected.. Lol

I've lived through having a very strong opinionated empowered group of very senior architects to having practically no architects. Both deeply flawed models. Best is staff level hands on enginers per wide domain and a small team of enterprise architects steering the overall tech and arch direction.