There is some truth in that but mostly I would disagree. A lot of what I mentioned are ideas/concepts that usually came from one or more "guru-types". They may

There is some truth in that but mostly I would disagree. A lot of what I mentioned are ideas/concepts that usually came from one or more "guru-types". They may have been programmers, managers, or other. They're not necessarily wrong but the issue I have is that, in science what should be taught is to question everything and see if it's actually correct and verifiably so. With a lot of these concepts this is seemingly never done. It also comes from a specific period where everything happens to be quite tightly bound to Java (UML, Clean Code etc. especially). That doesn't mean that I can't learn something from it. But it is almost a little hypocritical when you are taught the importance of abstracting and generalizing but then the tools given themselves are not even general enough to apply to anything besides enterprise Java.