Cargo culting is just what you have to learn to accept and work around, because there will always be developers who fall for it. A decade ago, everyone was writ

Cargo culting is just what you have to learn to accept and work around, because there will always be developers who fall for it. A decade ago, everyone was writing dependency injection frameworks because that was the hotness and debugging became a nightmare, but, hey!, we completely decouple EVERYTHING! Then there was no sql (mongo etc) and if you were still using sql, your system was shit. Oh and way before that there was GoF and you ended up with UserBillingFacadeFactoryFactory abstractions. None of these technologies are bad. They're just bad in the hands of mediocre developers.