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I don't think intelligence or lack thereof is the problem. Rather, it seems people are paralyzing themselves by enjoying the endless discussions, stakeholder indecision, or boredom. All leading to these grotesque things which lack words in the right places, but have plenty in the wrong places.

The average web dev CRUD job isn't interesting enough to warrant that much intelligence.

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Intelligence is definitly a factor. In fact, more often than not when I encounter a person or team that seem to spend their time on everything else except addressing their most important problems, the reason for the apparent procastination is that they simply do not even know how to START solving the problem.

This is not exclusive for developers. It happens in management, too. Which is a second source of the problems you describe.

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