Architecture Astronaut
Kind: anti-pattern
Layer: Enforcement Core
Aliases: Over-Architecture
Record: architecture:architecture-astronaut
Severity: discouraged
Scope: model_governance, domain_boundary
Formed by: Prefer abstract frameworks, taxonomies, meta-models, and generic engines over concrete user, domain, and operational needs.
Canonical: Ontology
A defect in which abstract frameworks, meta-models and architectural structure are built ahead of the concrete needs they should serve.
Listed in Architecture principles, after Big-Upfront Frozen Architecture and before Feature-Only Design.