Thank you for giving me a starting point to work with.

FFS, I have a degree in Civ Eng but if I start wittering on about bridges and roads I will define abbreviations. Its common courtesy.

With regards your analogy involving Spotify: I ripped all my CDs to FLAAC some years ago. The tapes and records took a little longer. No idea what a Spotify is. Well I do, I'm an IT consultant, but I don't actually care, I'm a 50 something IT consultant! I bought my music years ago and listen to it on my gear and from my gear alone.

This SPA thing sounds like it is getting out of hand and it also sounds like there are tribal divisions being drawn up. IT does love a tribe! We even have multiple internal tribes: devops, webdev and so on.

I'm nominally a PHB ...