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In some circles of programmers, the field of software architecture has a bad reputation. To some extent maybe deservedly so, likely caused by overgeneralizing from encountering a certain type of software architect at work. Architectural qualities of systems in my experience and opinion cannot be influenced, effectively at least, by command and control, or idealized yet ultimately meaningless diagrams, or sending out lengthy documents, in which one is pontificating about how things ought to look like from 10000 meters above the ground. I believe in the superiority of practice. There is no substitution for spending a significant part of the work week in the weeds, on systems which are actually in use by other people. Fewer opinions, but better informed ones trump all those write-only documents in the world.