[zeraholladay]

I think a lot of developers naively rely on "software design" principles. They often can't state their reasons for adopting these principles and assume these principles are self-evident. This can be a problem when these principles conflict with external priorities, or when a complex "principled" design is used instead of an obvious, intuitive design. There's also a certain amount of trendiness to software design, so trends can be applied haphazardly.

That being said, I've also seen plenty of "scientific code" that's totally incomprehensible even to the point where the scientist who wrote the code can't debug it. So there's an extreme in the other direction.