Yep, I'm a shell grunt. I like it, but it's the same thing I was doing long ago.
Nothing ever changes in corpworld. Now the issue is straight EDI vs. XML - or as I call it, EDLie. An EDI record for a simple transaction is almost the same size as the transaction - a few lines. The EDLie XML is almost a page long of retina-stretching angle brackets.
There is always some pointless controversy in which the shitty idiom attempts to displace the better one, without any value-add and with much value-subtract. The shitty idiom always wins.
It's like the Western world is going insane.