Hi, I'm the original author. Thanks for your insights. I've been speaking to many engineers from the 60s/70s/80s and I really do believe the mentality has been

Hi, I'm the original author. Thanks for your insights. I've been speaking to many engineers from the 60s/70s/80s and I really do believe the mentality has been in the making for a while now. Y2K was just a decade ago and engineering in India is surely older than that. And yes, herd mentality did play a huge part, as I said, since my seniors were doing it, I did it.