No company has thought through every little bit of their system and processes because no company has the time to be completely original, just like no human idea only has ideas that they thought up themselves instead of borrowing a bunch of ideas from school, books, and overheard conversation because they sound right.
It's ok to not have an answer.
People cargo cult because there isn't enough time to exhaustively research every topic from scratch. Civilization exists because we blindly trust whatever methods seem to work, and then iterate on them.
> Cargo cult programming can also refer to the practice of applying a design pattern or coding style blindly without understanding the reasons behind that design principle. Some examples are adding unnecessary comments to self-explanatory code, overzealous adherence to the conventions of a programming paradigm, or adding deletion code for objects that garbage collection automatically collects.
Installing an app from the store is not cargo culting. Playing with a new framework is not cargo culting. Trying a new order at the donut shop is not cargo culting.
