[fenderbluesjr]

I encourage you to read more.. Your take on the wikipedia article reads as as you had your decision made up beforehand. The words he uses, which you think are too elaborate, have specific definitions within the context of the book. Your 'summary' missed the mark completely

[kristopolous]

Of course they do. That's part of the theater.

Some things are genuinely complicated and others are intentionally so.

This is clearly something that is complicated by choice, not by necessity.

All that "complicated by choice" leads to is fundamentalism and orthodoxy. People worry about whether their code matches the new sacred scripture over whether it works and then they shoehorn things into the form that don't belong there.

They bake meaning onto code that's way out of scope of the project. It's like programmers Gematria.

I've seen these all-knowing preachers write broken code and leave unmaintainable dumpster fires in their wake my whole career. Giant cathedral messes that barely do anything that all the customers complain about with endless academic blabbering everywhere and very little to show for it.

It's a "type", more rare than others, but they're out there.

If the results are better and the systems work sign me up. But if it's just another church of code with mere ceremony and internal logic, then yeah, have fun at mass.

[FieryTransition]

I think the problem is that these methods and authors are heavily incentivized to make a name for themselves and a framework which can become a business somehow.

There's a serious lack of scientific rigour in these areas, and from my experience, it's heavily driven by popularity. Besides, i still don't see a reason why you could not explain things in simpler terms.

If you get smart people together who can communicate well, think for themselves and don't stand in their way, it will always outperform any method. But this is so painfully obvious, that no one will pay you to say that. And there's really no cookie cutter recipe to achieve that, anyone who tells you otherwise, probably has something to sell.