This is a pervasive phenomenon in programming. Many times suboptimal solutions remain for a long time because, well, it does solve the problem. Once you are taught X by authoritative figures, you tend to lean on it. It takes experience and an open mind to do anything else.

The use of GOTO is another example. Yes, you probably wouldn't want in your codebase, but the overzealousness against it removes expressions like break statements or multiple return statements from languages.