Bad practitioners in any field crudely invoke and naively apply a trite toolbox of mantras. Detached from reality and driven by insecure ego, they become the problem by using magical thinking from authoritarian logic and delude themselves of the reality of what they are actually doing.

In any skill, people can fall prey to cults of myth and mysticism as they merit based on adherence to orthodoxy rather than suitability. Programming is no different and sometimes it's hard to hear anybody think over the mooing of all the sacred cows.