Yeah, I feel that this is by and large the scenario I've witnessed. Not necessarily pushed by slow/lazy engineers but those that are bored with tried and true s

Yeah, I feel that this is by and large the scenario I've witnessed. Not necessarily pushed by slow/lazy engineers but those that are bored with tried and true solutions that have some 'difficult corners to chamfer'. I think the problem with developers is that they want to solve a problem in a very recognisable pattern playing into the Asperger's like nature held by most perfectionists but unfortunately ends up much like your have outlined (but now they have some hot new technology on there resume so moving onto different problems is usually more desirable than re-fixing the new problems they've introduced to solve again)