Yeah, hard disagree on all that. As someone who lived through that era professionally, and who has had an "architect" title in the past, I was actually resistant to ever stepping into that role, because I had so many bad experience with the Formal Architecture Methodology crew, who would produce the most absurd and out-of-touch designs. There's a reason that "architecture astronaut" is a term from that era.
Lots of people make bad designs today, sure, but it's not for a lack of formal methodologies, because average design quality was way worse back in the design patterns 'n' UML days.
Lots of people make bad designs today, sure, but it's not for a lack of formal methodologies, because average design quality was way worse back in the design patterns 'n' UML days.