Comment by atraac

I was mainly .NET dev in the first 8 years of my career and it's a pretty common thing among .NET shops/corporates. Most .NET devs I worked with seemed to be on average older guys who are stuck in .NET Framework 3.x days. I joined a place that used .NET 5 and one guy was still writing hash code and equal methods for every single data class he made(by hand too). When I asked him why, he said that he didn't know he doesn't have to do that anymore. Those people are mostly alright/mediocre devs who just refuse to keep up with the times, clock in, clock out, don't think too much, just write some more code to make it work. If someone a decade ago started some convoluted architectural pattern, they'll just continue doing it, no thought given as to why or what for, whether things can be done better. While I have different, but equally annoying issues with Node/Js world I work in now, I don't miss those .NET days.