As production becomes more and more specialized and more and more automated workers lose connection to the product they are producing. A shoemaker cares about t

As production becomes more and more specialized and more and more automated workers lose connection to the product they are producing. A shoemaker cares about the shoes they make because it is their person creation. A worker in a shoe factory who perhaps is just pulling a lever over and over again doesn't care at all about the end result. This is called alienation. Specialization causes workers to become alienated from their work. We can assume that alienation is rife in the software industry. Someone writing a module for some extension interface for some in house editing tool for the accounting department may not care much. So they prioritize other things. An engineer wants to learn new programming languages because it looks good on their cv and a manager wants to lead large groups because it also looks good on their cv. Thus overcomplicated projects written in newfangled programming languages is in both their best interest. Especially if they are contractors. Then the simplest solution is almost always the wrong one.