People-- especially non-programming managers-- have become dependent on the trappings of productivity that they've forgotten what actual work looks like. Java c

People-- especially non-programming managers-- have become dependent on the trappings of productivity that they've forgotten what actual work looks like. Java culture is full of this nonsense. The business becomes so dependent on a convoluted toolchain that it doesn't need for most purposes. Web programming is now, too. Look around at job postings for frontend dev positions and you'll see basically just lists of fashionable tools, e.g. "Grunt, Bower, Angular, Phantom, Karma, Jasmine..."