In my 30± year career I can confidently say that Software Engineers look towards standardisation by default as it makes their lives easier. It feels to me that

In my 30± year career I can confidently say that Software Engineers look towards standardisation by default as it makes their lives easier. It feels to me that you're bitter or had more than one bad experience. Perhaps you keep working with, or come across, bad Engineers as your generalising is inaccurate.