Unless it's a consultancy project it's less about billable hours and more about internal busywork and resume fodder. In a ZIRP/startups environment this kind o

Unless it's a consultancy project it's less about billable hours and more about internal busywork and resume fodder. In a ZIRP/startups environment this kind of BS was rewarded by the market and thus "engineers" would take any opportunity to build up such unproductive over-engineering skills to polish up their resume for the next opportunity.