For instance, SOA has had a new lease on life lately, for good reasons. I picked up a system that had four layers involved with doing a request; each of these layers had different serialization/deserialization logic (two submodules) and at least one submodule that would actually do the work.

Debugging a problem in the system often involved a wild goose chase across 12 submodules and often changing something simple (like adding a new data field) would require all 12 modules to be changed.

Even if you have a good batting average and you manage to make these changes right 90% of the time it's close to certain that making a change to that system would create a new bug.

The underlying social problem isn't that "people want to do things quickly", it's that people don't see simplicity as a virtue and don't see complexity as a problem. If they valued speed, they'd pursue simplicity because you can make changes much more quickly in a simple system.