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Fashion.

Oh absolutely, $THING is fashionable and is therefore ridiculous and nobody should use it. It couldn't possibly be that $THING is incredibly useful under a specific set of circumstances, and that caused $THING to be fashionable.

Just because something is fashionable doesn't mean that's the reason people decide to use it.

Software suffers from fashion. If you look at the core java libraries they are a history of software engineering fashion.

I would argue that fashion drives most of our choices. We are not immune to it, if anything we are about the same level as teenagers IMO. Tech for whatever reason is very susceptible to fashion.

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