It's cargo culting more often than not. For some reason, people don't follow good advices which require changing code logic, refactoring and such: they follow

It's cargo culting more often than not. For some reason, people don't follow good advices which require changing code logic, refactoring and such: they follow advices where you need to format everything in the longest possible way and write a lot of boilerplate. Because it's just easier for some people.