In a way a problem of botched mass education
Imagine everyone had some meaningful IT classes during their school career. Surely most would know nearly nothing about it when they start working, however you still have a basic idea about it in the heads of the people. Over all, it's likely they will get a feeling about what's easy to do and what's not.
And this is the big problem about many software projects. People don't have a feeling for how hard something is. That's why they often choose unnecessarily hard ways to solve a problem. At least that's one problem, many programmers also try to cut the boredom by trying to make their work challenging, unfortunately usually beyond the point of their own abilities. The earlier you have started to program the more likely you are to be beyond this point and just write software as easy as you are able to.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
