Now don't go blaming capitalism. It's the software engineers tendency to always be on the lookout for the silver bullet that will fix one of the currently broke

Now don't go blaming capitalism. It's the software engineers tendency to always be on the lookout for the silver bullet that will fix one of the currently broken things so it doesn't hurt so much that drives this endless performance theater. In this environment there is an endless flood of salesmen - some benevolent, some charlatans - trying to sell the next fix. The problem is as pointed out by Alan Kay among others that software engineering as a discipline seems to be a pop culture that always is uncritically on the lookout for the next methodology promoted by it's inventor. Without a hint of criticism or self reflection.