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The first one — the one most developers encounter — is a maze of abstractions. Separate domain models and persistence models connected by fragile mappers. Application services that do nothing but load, call, save, publish. Interfaces for dependencies that haven’t changed in a decade. It’s exhausting. It’s expensive. And it’s the reason “DDD is over-engineering” became a meme.