After two decades in this industry, I've come to the same conclusion. Developers may use logic in coding, but trend-wise, we're bunch of herds following whatever others are doing. We forget whatever lessons we learned previously whenever something new comes out. It's good to see there are others who see insanity in it as well.
There is a logic to following trends, but it has nothing to do with the problems being solved and everything to do with remaining relevant in the workforce.
I agree with this. I've seen the same but the core problem is we don't learn from others mistakes: we prefer to rely on our own tool-making skills to demonstrate increased facility while making similar mistakes.
The thing missing in developers that I have decried over and over in this devop/agile movement is that SAs had discipline and an ordered idea and that developers exist to perturb the norm to better effect. The two ideas are not readily reconcilable.
