Touché! Both luckily and unfortunately, this incident was not on my team. Even then, I find it increasingly hard to argue people out of the nonsense they pick

Touché! Both luckily and unfortunately, this incident was not on my team. Even then, I find it increasingly hard to argue people out of the nonsense they pick up on blogs and conferences. Especially for newer techniques that are not yet proven to be inefficient, such as using micro services in the wrong context, one has to resort to arguments by authority. Some junior and senior devs are not very susceptible to that. For areas such as web development for user interfaces, or taking in enormous dependency trees with package managers, the problem is even worse. Here, an entire industry had standardised on suboptimal methods. One can argue that this is wrong, but there is no viable alternative. In the latter case, guiding only one junior developer does not improve things. One has to educate the entire industry.