The Real Reason Behind Onion Architecture

The truth finally revealed by a battle-scarred architect! Onion Architecture isn't named for its elegant layers of separation and dependency flow. Nope. It's named for the tears you'll shed when some junior dev decides that direct database access from the UI layer is "more efficient." Nothing says "architectural integrity" like finding repository implementations scattered across 47 different projects because "inheritance was too complicated." The real layers of the onion are just varying depths of developer suffering.