I remember getting my hands on a CORBA specification back as a wide-eyed teen thinking there is this magical world of programming purity somewhere: all 1200 pages of it, IIRC (not sure what version).

And then you don't really need most of it, and one thing you need is so utterly complicated, that it is stupid (no RoI) to even bother being compliant.

And truly, less is more.