Well it is our own fault. If a programmer faces a hard problem, it is always tempting to follow the urge to fiddle around with the tooling. Like a hobbyist who

Well it is our own fault. If a programmer faces a hard problem, it is always tempting to follow the urge to fiddle around with the tooling. Like a hobbyist who buys a ton of gear for their hobby but never uses it. Tools are tools. If you feel they are more, you got a problem. Unless of course your job is the creation of tools, in which case: go ahead.