This has happened to me a lot too. A lot of times there will be tons of politics involved and for whatever reason somebody (a team or project lead) may want to

This has happened to me a lot too. A lot of times there will be tons of politics involved and for whatever reason somebody (a team or project lead) may want to portray 'their' version of the narrative mostly for political reasons. At one place where I worked there were 4-5 big teams with different technology specializations and for every big project we did, these 4 teams had to have a cut of the project for budgeting purposes. So no matter if there was a need for it or not, youd have BizTalk, or SAP, or SalesForce or whatever inject themselves into a solution and create a complete mess from an architecture standpoint. Completely idiotic.