This falls into a broader category of disillusionment: "Pretend problems are the funnnest ones to solve", meaning, when the problem doesn't actually exist, any solution can be leveraged as the "right" one because there is no real world backpressure to test if it's effective.

Software Devs love solving pretend problems, and the state of modern web development reflects this.

Up the Organization by Robert Townsend had this gem, not the exact quote but: big companies didn't get big by acting like big companies.