I think you are hitting the key point to make. It boils down too "dogmas are bad". All these programming methodologies seem to be in risk of developing a cargo

I think you are hitting the key point to make. It boils down too "dogmas are bad". All these programming methodologies seem to be in risk of developing a cargo cult following and since programmers are way more dogmatic than people it also gets way worse than in other fields. I don't like TDD and I think it is silly. But fine whatever floats your boat. The problems begins when someone tries to push the single right way onto others and it seems to mainly be a problem in corporate settings where most people rather get money than doing what they think is the right thing -- and some people push agile, TDD or whatever.