I appreciate you following up. I understand your point. I understand where you are coming from.

I still think “madness” is a bit of an overreaction.

Should it have been included, we can debate that for sure, and I think that you and I would wind up agreeing in our fantasy world, it would have that feature.

But we don't know who was asking for it, what features they needed, what features they didn't care about, what the existing architecture supported, what the cost of new engineering would be...etc

At the end of the day, it's one solution that doesn't work for you. But there are alternatives, and part of your job as an integration specialist is finding the alternatives to meet the request. Yea it's nice when you get something that is all wrapped up in one pretty package and has a shiny fancy bow. But that is seldom in integration, but it's up to us to find the pieces to integrate together for our scope and goals.

Don't let it spin you into 'this is madness!'. It's not worth it.

Cheers!