This sounds like the justification to keep hazing traditions at schools. "Everyone here went through this hazing ritual so it is wrong of you to want to not have to be hazed."

Just because this is historically the way things have been done does not make it right or best.

As a geek, I want my systems to work as efficiently as possible, and the "find a job" system as at least I have experienced it does not work this way at all.