(Because of course, I created something like this more than a decade ago that is still in use)
You might like this version better
By the way, making spurious accusations is very much a political technique. So bravo you.
What is important is this likely politically astute developer saw an in with this and made it a thing.
You've seen it often enough, I'm sure.
I also recall C and C++ developers saying Java wasn’t special because you can do all of those things in C. Yeah well, “can” and “will” are two very different experiences.
A politically astute developer can take an idea and build a movement around it, whether or not it is their own idea for career advancement. This struck me as one of those things.
I was a politically astute developer at one point, I built movements. But they were not intended for career advancement and thus had the backing of technical people more than non-technical people. Quite often I came across less technically strong, but more politically astute developers than I who were able to take weak ideas and sell them to non-technical people in decision making positions purely as a career advancement move.
So politically astute is a neutral term.
One of the simplest patterns...