@jorwell I suspect your alternative is just as fantastical. The problem with your starting assertion is that there is no need to do in-depth integration if you build the connections in a loosely-coupled way.
The reason businesses have never been able to build suitable systems "in reasonable time scales, at sensible cost and with high reliability" is this obsession computing people have with designing and building the perfect system as a single project. This is not how the natural world works and it's time for a new approach that, indeed, harnesses the best fit out of "thousands of independently written services after the event."
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