EJB == !0-0

Why are EJBs so crap? In my quarter of a century of programming I've not come across anything quite as retrograde as EJBs (M$ excluded - of course). What happened to 0-0? What happened to Java's deploy anywhere ethos? EJBs suck! BIG Time. This would all be of little interest, (even to me), if it weren't for the fact that 90% of Java jobs now required EJB. And I now need to find a new job.