[chii]

you want to be known as the one who invented the wheel, because it looks good as a resume item. That's why the wheel keeps getting reinvented again and again, and usually quite poorly.

[JackFr]

The wheel gets reinvented because wheels are extremely useful, not because they look good on resumes. (OTOH, Greenspun's tenth rule is a different story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule)