Reading this gave me a thought, which is that I would like to see a series of artistic renderings of physical analogies for such sorts of Rube-Goldberg-Machine-esque software monstrosities. This one sounds like it'd be an assembly line where in each step of the process, the piece-in-progress would be packaged in a shipping box and sent through the mail C/O the person manning the next station 15 feet away.