Comment by epx

Coincidence, I've written something about it two weeks ago (in Portuguese, unfortunately: https://epxx.co/logbook/entries/sm.html). About Petri Nets as well. It is difficult to understand why so many junior programmers use a dozen boolean state variables instead of a state machine, given that they learn it in CS or similar courses. My guess is they are taught in an overly scientific fashion, so they go to the same dusty corner where so many other CS topics that are never used in practice lie already.