I\'m specifically referring to this question: DDD - How to implement factories
The selected answer has stated:
\"factories should not be tied with dependency
Domain objects should not have many dependencies.
By Fowler's Tell-Don't-Ask principle (https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TellDontAsk.html), you would want the domain objects to do as much as possible. Including having dependencies. But in Clean Code (Uncle Bob) Chapter 6, it mentions it can be a good design to have data structures operated on by procedure/function classes (services). As long as you don't have hybrid objects which combine simple getters/setters as well as more complex tell-don't-ask operations.
Fowler disagreed with thin models and called it an antipattern - AnemicDomainModel. https://www.martinfowler.com/bliki/AnemicDomainModel.html
I disagree with Fowler. I strongly agree with the following quote from another article about this Fat-Models problem: "Following this logic basically every behaviour would end up in the model classes. This is something that we know (by experience) is a bad idea. Hundreds or thousands of lines of code crammed into a single class is a recipe for disaster. Service Objects grew out of this frustration." - https://tmichel.github.io/2015/09/14/oo-controversies-tell-dont-ask-vs-the-web/
We actually have a project with fat domain models which has this exact problem. As requirements change over time and code gets more complex, a huge, fat model is quite inflexible to perform different operations and handle new requirements. Instead of adding new service workflow paths (classes) acting differently on the same simple data model, you have to make expensive, difficult refactors on the enormous, complicated domain model. It encapsulates the data and prevents anyone from modifying the data in unexpected ways but at the same time, it makes it really difficult for new workflow to manipulate the data in new ways.