I hear this often, and I see many on HN be in favor of this narrative, but I have the opposite experience. Its often the cargo-culting companies pushing these s

I hear this often, and I see many on HN be in favor of this narrative, but I have the opposite experience. Its often the cargo-culting companies pushing these soft requirements onto education, as students and companies will otherwise complain about not being employable / finding starters who reach their expectations respectively. Most of the time, I see seniors reach for overly complicated solutions, when much simpler solutions exist. Which later falls apart when errors happen silently and simple ideologies like "single truth" are ignored for no particularly good reason, leading to massive duplicate code and gotchas. At this point, I'm extremely unconvinced the problem is just education or juniority/seniority. The "paper factory" is just doing what companies are demanding. The real problem is a general lack of competence being used to market products, be they good when used properly (e.g. GoF, where many readers only look at design patterns and completely forget "composition over inheritance"), or snake oil.