We blame it on youth and immaturity, but that's a lot of it. There are driving reasons for this, and I agree with you they don't make sense, but I'm not sure how we change things.

We use lots of young people, who by definition, don't have experience. We let them run their own processes and standards, because for the most part, those things are effective. They work and produce results. The value from those results often outweighs the need for training and experience to be used, often even if the systems are redone three or four times. It's just not that often it's worth it.

Add to the fact that the "older" generations that have processes and standards are slow to adapt to news ways of doing things, and I'm not surprised that we just let things run wild. It makes dollar sense, especially in the short term.