> I have only seen this problem in elder devs.

To drop an anecdatum into the fray, I am an older dev and I tend to see this from younger devs because, frankly, the elder devs are too tired and semi-burnt out from trying to stop the younger devs creating nonsensically pure houses of glass built on the Wise Words of The Bloggers using Technique du Jour where everything takes 4x as long and results in the most fragile and complex sugar-spun castles which collapse into unmaintainable slop after the first contact with enemy (customer) fire.

(I may or may not be bitter about this from previous jobs)

Yeah, the fatigue is real.

It takes much more energy to stop a bad idea / framework from taking root in a large org than to start one.