alt Hacker NewsI would narrow this down further. Programmers (myself guilty) live abstractions they control. It gives them the ability to tweak little things and feel like they've done it in a more maintainable way.
Programmers HATE using other people's abstractions, which is why "mini frameworks" tend to tall apart after expanding to teams that don't have control over it. In my experience, this leads to new mini frameworks wrapping the first one, forever targeting a static version of the underlying MF, to allow for adding new appendages without going through a gatekeeper.
It is easier to write your own code than to understand someone’s else code.
It would be much better if we get more humble people who get down to work to understand why and how existing code or framework works instead of trying to work around it or simply throwing all away and writing their own code.
Thera are of course some exceptions - but those are like pro athletes - no you are not the one, learn existing code instead of making excuses about some edge cases you ran into so you have to rewrite all from scratch.