[angarg12]

I believe many companies also incentivize this. Not many people get praise, raises and promos by saying no or simplifying things, much less juniors. Once you've built something and put it in your promo doc, no one wants to remove it or say it was the wrong thing to build.

As an example, I did an spike to explore a request from another team. I wrote a short document with my findings and recommended against it due to the cost/benefit analysis. My manager told me not to use this story in my performance review since "we don't want to display failures".