[noobermin]

As someone adjacent to software but not really a dev in that sense, it's stuff like this I rant about all day here and (unforunately) to my friends and family is how devs can't just embrace things that work but have to reinvent everything every couple of years and how that attitude makes life worse for everyone, both users and those downstream from software like me.

I don't know how to fix it because it seems like an industry wide problem, a very deep cultural problem that absent some outside force will not change. Just as a note, the curse was called "CADT" by jwz back in the late 90s to early 2000s so it's been a part of the industry for a while and likely won't dissipate any time soon.

[mwcampbell]

I wonder if the problem is that so many of my generation, including myself (I'm in my early 40s), learned programming as kids because it was fun, and we (including myself) never fully outgrew that childish mentality. Maybe the industry would be better off if more programmers were like my uncle who learned programming in college as a job to make a living, and treated it as such, and nothing more.

[noobermin]

If not there at the very least should be a balance, where code can be "fun" and you can have all the innovation you want while at the end of the day, tried, true, and boring solutions don't get thrown out for no real reason.