Misanthropes generally resort to this world view with respect to humanity because we (outing myself) believe human nature always reveals itself (eg - line up for toilet paper at the beginning of the pandemic).

We are resigned to the feeling that ‘it’s never gonna get fixed’. It’s not a good way to be, and to see this worldview permeate into objective areas of life is even more depressing.

Misanthropy kind of absolves humanity of it’s nature. What I don’t like to see in software is that type of absolution for code we know is obviously not pragmatic. It’s a tough debate because often the perpetrators of complex abstraction layers don’t believe it’s bad (any number of us could have been the guilty party at some point or another):

I think we should still try to be optimistic about openly debating complexity, or else we risk allowing misanthropic perceptions to enter this realm too - ‘people just suck at programming, so be it’.