[unexaminedlife]

"Seems obvious, but building up mental model of software development through a structured approach is better than just letting it happen naturally during work hours."

Yes, it bothers me to no end seeing code that has been developed using 20 different mental models. I like the idea that enterprises (seemingly) are trying to scale by providing tools to individuals rather than trying to build up hierarchical structure within teams, but in my experience this has caused a radical redirection to having almost no cohesiveness in how code is constructed. "We use Spring Boot" is not a magic bullet.