Yeah, hard disagree on all that. As someone who lived through that era professionally, and who has had an "architect" title in the past, I was actually resistant to ever stepping into that role, because I had so many bad experience with the Formal Architecture Methodology crew, who would produce the most absurd and out-of-touch designs. There's a reason that "architecture astronaut" is a term from that era.

Lots of people make bad designs today, sure, but it's not for a lack of formal methodologies, because average design quality was way worse back in the design patterns 'n' UML days.