This effect is really common in software. The Android dev community spent 10+ years doing something called “Clean Architecture”, just to end up realizing that most of it was not needed 🤷‍♂️ Folks would create 5+ layers of code that couldn’t touch each other for some reason, so they’d throw an interface between every pair of them, then force mapping pojos from one layer to another. All that just to build a simple app. This effect is very hard to escape. The way it happens is: - someone learns a new concept that sounds revolutionary in theory. - People start writing and talking about it in complex terms as if it was rocket science, just to position themselves as an authority on the topic and grow their personal brand. - A whole scene is created out of a concept that was meant to be a trivial thing, to the point that there is a major force pushing every dev in the community to do the same. Usually only a handful of devs are smart/brave enough to study it with a critical eye and propose alternatives. Mostly because they are hardly pushed back by the whole community when they do so, since the big majority of devs simply follow what everyone else says, and never try to actually understand the concepts and why they exist.