It's both, as it's a feedback cycle. This industry, like many others, rewards narcissism and loudmouths above all else. It does so in the large (e.g. Fowler or

It's both, as it's a feedback cycle. This industry, like many others, rewards narcissism and loudmouths above all else. It does so in the large (e.g. Fowler or Uncle Bob worship; "ex-FAANG" cache) and in the small (the self-promoting engineer who touts his work even if it's not all that great gets promoted over the "soft-power" engineer managing tough projects lowkey). In this environment the symptom feeds the cause, because nobody stops to question whether the symptom is even a symptom. The root cause, ignorance, is entrenched and made deeper, which feeds the symptom. And so on.