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It makes sense .. if all you have is a hammer ..

The problem is exacerbated though by the amount of churn on styles of hammers, and newer developers are often too hammered to pickup other tools ..

I've noticed this about few things. Regular expressions are another - they have this bad reputation as "write-only, magic one liner hacks" that should absolutely be avoided. The proposed alternative is usually one or more dozens of lines of manual string operations in a loop. It feels like it doesn't enter the minds of people in some companies I worked in that regular expressions are a separate language, one that you should learn.

And layers of abstraction make it worse. Devs don't know SQL because Hibernate, now new devs rely on the "auto-magic" of Spring Data JPA and don't now Hibernate...

I've heard quite a few times the argument that by using Hibernate, you don't need to know SQL. But Hibernate's manual is huge.