Am I the only one who thinks this is insane and a product of an architecture astronaut? Their whole workflow sounds absolutely exhausting and something ripped straight from the movie Brazil. Layers upon layers upon layer. This is nuts.
There's a rule (I forget who pointed it out first, I heard it in 1994 or so) that the structure of a software system will exactly mirror the structure of the organization that created it.
It turns out that there’s some academic backing to this original observation and it’s partly what is driving some really controversial organizational changes at larger software companies.
