Having worked somewhere that had a very boring tech stack there's a real drive among junior developers to pile on the cool thing they saw at a conference / read

Having worked somewhere that had a very boring tech stack there's a real drive among junior developers to pile on the cool thing they saw at a conference / read in a blog into their current work. It becomes kind of a zealotry devoid of reality. They've been hired to make the company money by solving problems, and I think that's often the missing piece of the puzzle - that connection with the problem you are solving (and why!)