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The funny thing is that this constantly happens in every field ever, humans truly excel at repeating history without learning from the past.

Another example:

- HTML served by static file servers

- HTML generated by backend

- HTML enhanced with small JS snippets

- HTML generated by frontend, but served by backend

- Go to step one, not learning why anyone moved on from the previous method

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Programmers excel at it, you don't see that happening much with Physics, Chemistry, Math, Material Sciences etc Funnily enough it has also been observed before, by Alan Kay comparing programming to a pop culture "In the last 25 years or so, we actually got something like a pop culture" https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1039523#:~:text=In%20the...

Poor training, poor communication, & knowledge not being curated.

When then best method of getting advice on the internet is to post the wrong answer you know the system is broken.

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