>...its "because WCF is a higher-level abstraction that supports, among other things, WS-* "

And it fails spectacularly. I mean, _it works_, but it's a disaster to work with and write software against.

The entire abstraction is leaking profusely, all precisely "because WS-*". Who in their right mind will attempt to establish a family of standards for "transport-agnostic" communication, routing, serialization and whatnot when realistically 99% of the time HTTPS is all you ever need?