I'm coming to agree with you. The platonic example of this has to be Neward's "Object-Relational Mapping is the Vietnam of Computer Science" article. This thesi

I'm coming to agree with you. The platonic example of this has to be Neward's "Object-Relational Mapping is the Vietnam of Computer Science" article. This thesis and summary of this article are utterly amazing and everybody should read them. It has a history of how we got here, a summary of ways forward, and an analysis of each solution's pros and cons. Too bad at least half of the article is a painful tortured amateur analysis of the Vietnam War which ultimately does not tie into the topic of the paper at all.