This post makes me kind of sad. There's a whole slew of developers who believe "X is bad so I did Y" and are in turn alienating themselves from design patterns

This post makes me kind of sad. There's a whole slew of developers who believe "X is bad so I did Y" and are in turn alienating themselves from design patterns and frameworks needlessly. I think posts like these breed arrogance and it should be less about "why not to" and more about "why to".