> mostly written by junior engineers or even students (because there are so many publicly-accessible Java school-project personal GitHub repos.)
I used to work at a Java shop a few years ago. Hated my time there since a. I was coming from a more pragmatic way of writing software in C and Java and its ecosystem made me pull my hair out and b. came across several very senior engineers who insisted on writing code with factories and builders and obscure design patterns which made no sense to me. They were all straight from praying at the altar of Design Patterns and always found a way to give comments about a future scenario where this would be refactored.
I was fairly convinced that design patterns in OOP languages were conceived by relatively senior folks as a form of gate keeping.
I used to work at a Java shop a few years ago. Hated my time there since a. I was coming from a more pragmatic way of writing software in C and Java and its ecosystem made me pull my hair out and b. came across several very senior engineers who insisted on writing code with factories and builders and obscure design patterns which made no sense to me. They were all straight from praying at the altar of Design Patterns and always found a way to give comments about a future scenario where this would be refactored.
I was fairly convinced that design patterns in OOP languages were conceived by relatively senior folks as a form of gate keeping.