I don't disagree and have seen the same thing. However, I've also noticed in those cases that it's very hard to get people to agree on what the problem actuall

I don't disagree and have seen the same thing. However, I've also noticed in those cases that it's very hard to get people to agree on what the problem actually is. One person's incorrect over-abstraction is another person's incompletely-DRYed-up code.