Yes KFC is trash . Im from around the south east <| sep |> Bah . How unpleasant . <| sep |> Gemlibplugin driven developmenta specially strong in Ruby On Rails community , where occasionally I can see a Gemfile so long that the only thing longer is the time it takes to load the app . It comes from the idea that every problem in rails should be solved with a gem . Sometimes it would take a couple of lines to build solution ourselves . But we ' re just solving problems by adding libs , plugins , gems or frameworks . Sure lets all stop using libraries maintained elsewhere and let code rot because you don ' t want to use what you think are trivial libraries . FFS there is no such thing as a trivial library , if you need it and it comes with tests and outside development use it . If it doesn ' t it probably shouldn ' t be used , maybe you can contrib some add to someone else code at the same time as your own and you both learn . Step 4 We need to join tables ? That is a no go . Simple SQL operations are becoming increasingly challenging . Development is slow and our core problems are not solved . Fire anyone that claims to know SQL and cannot JOIN or advocates making a large flat table . If you don ' t have someone that knows SQL and you use an SQL DB , shame on you ! The whole point of an RDBMS is that there are many objects that are as small as possible so that multiple people can collaborate without so many issues as a NoSQL system which simply saves both edits but then needs manual resolving for the humans . The bottom line is hype is subjective , you have to use your brain to know when it will help the resume and when it ' s just goofing off because you can . You ' ll absolutely never cleanse the world of hype or snakeoil or pseudoscience and I for one would rather you didn ' t make the world quite perfect because without a little variety and fun , what would we have ? You ' ve essentially argued for cavedwelling or at the least conservatism .