Starting around the mid 2010s I think, I started seeing needless use of "Design Patterns" all over the place (mostly by CS graduates). Factories, adapters, obse

Starting around the mid 2010s I think, I started seeing needless use of "Design Patterns" all over the place (mostly by CS graduates). Factories, adapters, observers in places where it was just plain overkill and needless extra lines of useless code. I started referring to it as cargo-cult programming.