I just don’t get how globular clusters exist without some sort of identifiable orbital pattern.
One theory I read is that they are the cores of very old galaxies which lost all of their angular momentum through the shedding of vast amounts of mass through lost galactic arms that were full of stars. As a result, the core that is left has been slowed to a standstill, and then unflattens because of lack of spin and opens up into a ball and actually gives birth to new stars through the resulting gravitational compression of interstellar gas.
The theory went on, but by that point I'd run out of beer : )
And messier than what? That’s never explained.