I wonder how much of this is the journeyman problem (aka, the expert beginner) I believe writing test code is its own skill. Hence, like a coder learning SRP a

I wonder how much of this is the journeyman problem (aka, the expert beginner) I believe writing test code is its own skill. Hence, like a coder learning SRP and dogmatically applying it, so does a person that is forced to write unit tests without deep understanding. (And of course, bad abstractions are worse than code duplication) I think it's very possible to have a developer with 10 yes experience but effectively only 2 years experience building automated test suites. (Particularly if they came from a time before automated testing, or if the testing and automated tests were someone else's job)