Agreed. You see the same vague cargo-culting in C#. The popularity of both (as the de-facto standards on Windows and OS X/iOS) has just led to a lot of people who've learned enough to "get things done" rather than understanding both practical and theoretical underpinnings of the systems that they're using.

It worries me, to a degree, because there's probably no way to make a programming language smart enough to protect users from these people.