I think some of it also comes from treating symptoms instead of problems. "Git doesn't do X so I'll just make this tool to add the feature" One hundred tools

I think some of it also comes from treating symptoms instead of problems. "Git doesn't do X so I'll just make this tool to add the feature" One hundred tools and a few consolidations into toolkits later you have a massively complex tool chain scope creeped from some much smaller problem deep down in git