[pgeorgi]

No, but "got ridiculed because apparently nobody does it this way" reflects poorly on the coworkers (or on the author's perception of the world), while "I certainly pretended that my colleagues were hopeless idiots" is also rather immature.

tl;dr: it sounds like a toxic work environment where everybody loses.

[seattle_spring]

Author may have left out the part where his co-workers said, "no one does it this way [because it's usually a bad approach using this technology, and your particular use-case isn't some special case where over-engineered and brittle inheritance is actually a good idea.]"