I think skepticism then is one of the devices of the Socratic method. You can't build on other people's work if you don't question and verify it's validity (or

I think skepticism then is one of the devices of the Socratic method. You can't build on other people's work if you don't question and verify it's validity (or the lack of) on your own and build on top of that. Art history is riddled with such free-thinking products. To an extent punk is derived from the avant-garde movement. Closer to home, there wouldn't be data science without statistics though you can find data scientists that don't necessarily grok statistics. Same with full-stack JS devs that skimmed CSS and/or web design history because doing everything in JavaScript in the name of reusable components and reduced mental overhead is what Facebook does, so it applies to every case given the weight of the benefits (without taking app weight and projected expansion into consideration). This is IMO one of the reasons we get so much cargo-cults and tribalism around software development overall. Too much detachment in the name of abstracting complexity away.