That matches my experience as well. It also illustrates the divide in educational tracks, for lack of a better term, that I probably should have expanded on in

That matches my experience as well. It also illustrates the divide in educational tracks, for lack of a better term, that I probably should have expanded on in my original post. In addition to individual developers and development teams have the potential to be either the problem-solving or the theory building types, the path a person take to programming can go either of those directions. It is most apparent in the difference between a BS in CS from somewhere like Carnegie-Mellon (a bastion of high level theoretical CS education) and any code boot camp or online web-dev centric training course.