I dare to say the opposite. Students still care and should have learned these principles in uni. They tend to overengineer and focus too much on the technical

I dare to say the opposite. Students still care and should have learned these principles in uni. They tend to overengineer and focus too much on the technical challenges In bigger companies, most IT people tend to be people who got the job because they started coding back in the day when you could get by using just common sense and gut feeling. Today we know those often lead to dark patterns and bad database design, but those people have now grown into architecture and management positions and have no clue what they are talking about. This is very prevalent in tech teams of non tech companies (e.g. manufacturing, banking, healthcare, CPGs,...)