"I trust that the guys who wrote this have been shot." :-)
People who all run the same version of Visual Studio think SOAP is awesome. Get handed somebody else's "whiz-dull" a few times, and see how much fun it is to generate a working client using a different brand/version client stack.
I had the pleasure of writing a client for a SOAP service in a Titanium/JavaScript app not too long ago. If you don't have visual studio generating those proxy classes for you then indeed it's a huge pain.
Well, at least SOAP uses XML which has defined the basic formats. I hate that there are at least three different datetime formats in JSON and they are all used. WTF!
SOAP isn't that bad if you stay away from WS- extensions
