God, thank you for saying this, I seriously teared up.

Cargo cult programming is a related concept: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult_programming.

Also this article describes how we’re talking about performance as if it’s the ultimate omnipresent goal, while it rarely is: https://exceptionnotfound.net/performance-doesnt-matter-unless-you-can-prove-that-it-does.

And this stackoverflow answer that discusses how those cults are born: https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/65179/where-does-this-concept-of-favor-composition-over-inheritance-come-from/65209#65209.

(Yes, I’m collecting the links)