Simplicity and DDD

Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software was written in a way that lets people interpret its ideas however they want.
Or you can read Head First Domain-Driven Design once, understand everything, and move on. That book was created specifically to remove the confusion.

DDD helps you structure complex domains. That’s it.

Once the domain is structured, you evolve it incrementally. At that point, you don’t need the full DDD “heavy artillery” anymore, you can keep things simple.

Also, we now have serverless and AI that writes code. Over the past five years, development has quietly shifted back toward procedural programming.
Where we once had to invent complex domain logic, today we delegate 99% of that abstraction overhead to serverless platforms and end up with minimal code written in the simplest way possible.

DDD ideas still work well with serverless. But the full-blown DDD “bazooka” is overkill.

DDD is a great tool, but still just a tool with a very narrow area of use.