I would narrow this down further. Programmers (myself guilty) live abstractions they control. It gives them the ability to tweak little things and feel like they've done it in a more maintainable way.

Programmers HATE using other people's abstractions, which is why "mini frameworks" tend to tall apart after expanding to teams that don't have control over it. In my experience, this leads to new mini frameworks wrapping the first one, forever targeting a static version of the underlying MF, to allow for adding new appendages without going through a gatekeeper.