@raiderrobert Hoo, boy, do I agree with this!
After writing code in quite a few different languages - COBOL, PL/1, SAS, FOCUS, Powerbuilder, myriad versions of SQL depending on the database (MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, Informix) plus Java and JavaScript as needed, I have a lot of technical dirt under my fingernails.
The reason we have standards & design patterns is because, as Captain Kirk likes to say, "You have to know WHY a starship works the way it does" and "We learn by doing." 🖖