We use DDD at the current company I work in and to be honest, I detest it so much that sometimes it makes me wonder if I even want to continue in the programming space (been at it for 20 years).
Don't get me wrong, DDD has meaning and purpose, but some companies are applying it as a badge to be obtained instead of pondering the question, do you really need to rewrite everything following DDD?
In our case, simple CRUD APIs that in "regular programming" might take a couple 200 line files have turned into unmanageable nightmares in DDD that take you at least a couple of days of really intensive investigation to understand, because it have been divided in more that 25 files that hold 3 or 4 lines of code at most, with so many abstraction layers that it's impossible for the best of us to follow in one go.
Now, you could make the argument "You Are Doing It Wrong(tm)" but since I'm just a drone in this specific scheme and there's no wiggle room for anything (the team is quite inflexible on this) I have to follow it to the letter.
Just giving my two cents, again, not depreciating DDD, it has its purpose but in my opinion, it's for very specific projects.
Don't get me wrong, DDD has meaning and purpose, but some companies are applying it as a badge to be obtained instead of pondering the question, do you really need to rewrite everything following DDD?
In our case, simple CRUD APIs that in "regular programming" might take a couple 200 line files have turned into unmanageable nightmares in DDD that take you at least a couple of days of really intensive investigation to understand, because it have been divided in more that 25 files that hold 3 or 4 lines of code at most, with so many abstraction layers that it's impossible for the best of us to follow in one go.
Now, you could make the argument "You Are Doing It Wrong(tm)" but since I'm just a drone in this specific scheme and there's no wiggle room for anything (the team is quite inflexible on this) I have to follow it to the letter.
Just giving my two cents, again, not depreciating DDD, it has its purpose but in my opinion, it's for very specific projects.