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It's also widening the gap between Dev and Ops. I was a developer for 6 years and started moving towards DevOps and trying to build relationships between the ops teams and the programmers. The programmers are always whining about not being able to use the latest language/tool/library/<<insert flash tech here>> while the ops team are just trying to make the pile of junk they've been handed work.

Spring, and Spring Boot most egregiously, work only to widen the gap between devs and ops. The developers have no idea what a Boot app is doing internally for 90% of its stack. The ops guys just want to stably deploy something that is well understood and supportable when it falls over. Not to mention the memory management headaches it introduces...

I moved away from JS early on in my career because it's mostly a disaster waiting to happen, but now the Java devs have the same potential to output a steaming pile of crap that they don't understand.

You are pretty far from the mark here... A study as far back as 2002 recognised the US as an oligarchy — i.e. not a democracy. And to call their legal/judicial systems or process “highly functional” is also pretty laughable.

George Floyd shouldn’t have come into the line of fire of these systems, he was an innocent man. The fact that it was and is so difficult to prosecute the responsible officer shows how dysfunctional the system is.

Using shame as a system of justice relies on emotional charge at the point of infraction. I would argue that’s how mob justice starts, not how we end injustice.

No, this is the SAP business model. If people think that Apple, Sony, or Microsoft try to lock you in to their 'walled garden' then these people have never seen an SAP installation/integration.

It's almost its own industry. There are fleets of consultants charging ~$1000 a day just to install the system. Then, as the OP said, they charge by the hour for customised reports which means that businesses have to choose their report very carefully, and will probably need several more hours consulting when one aspect didn't work quite how they thought.

I would be surprised if the commenter here was someone who didn't already have access to the data. They are being frustrated by consultants who want to keep their billable hours up, and extraneously restricting access under guises such as "this person doesn't have enough training to touch the system," because it keeps them in paid work.

Source: Friend of mine. Man on the inside.