There are lots of quirky cargo cults creeping into the .NET world, especially since the growth of Nuget. I've seen a few projects with DI/IOC everywhere, to the

There are lots of quirky cargo cults creeping into the .NET world, especially since the growth of Nuget. I've seen a few projects with DI/IOC everywhere, to the extent that I expect to see a convention test that fails if the new keyword is used in a project. And the stubs and mocks. I recently had to fix a beautifully tested piece of code where the developer forgot to implement the actual functionality. The proliferation of async/await and the idea that no self-respecting app can exist without a REST API layer also grate. Cargo cults seem to move in waves, and the frequency of those waves seems to be ticking up of late.