Yes, that's all too familiar to me. The dogmatic cargo-culting buzzword-bingo "religion" whose only claim to fame is in effectively producing gargantuan Enterprise Quality™ software --- I mean solutions --- which everyone inevitably hates because they are ridiculously bloated and overengineered to the point that the simplest things take an absurd amount of time and energy, and also have abysmal UX too...

"best practices are best not practiced."