Counterpoints to what you are saying:

Actually the okay but not so good programmers are more likely to be hung up on design patterns. They have learned few of them, and try to apply wherever they can, even when they really shouldn't. Aslo people that tend to do over-engineer a lot tend to overuse design patterns. Also you will see them in interviewees asking a lot more about design patterns themselves than actually coding/problem solving ability. It is is just a higher end version of asking "programming trivia".

To the risk of being downvoted, I repeat again: overuse of design patterns is a hallmark of mediocre programmers, or programmer that are not very experienced yet (they may become really good one day, but not there yet).