[jcranberry]

I think there's some of that, but a large part of it the very strong user-first ideology in applied CS. Not that I'm critiquing user prioritization (at all), but the problem of categorizing what's unnecessary overhead to be handled beneath the hood by tools and what should be left up to the developer to handle is a problem that has no unique solution/is highly context-dependent.

I think younger programmers' frustrations with old, difficult (and sometimes useful) tools along with their drive to modernize everything occasionally drives them to misdiagnose something as "legacy bullshit that isn't user-oriented enough" vs. "a powerful tool which is still necessary with limited uses".