There is a trend in the IT industry that really gets my back up.
A new technology comes out, people ignore it for a while.
People come to understand the technology and start to use it.
Before long said technology is being used to do EVERYTHING, often things it was not intended to do.
I've struggled for years to come up with some way to describe this succinctly. Well, Jeffrey Snover has come to my rescue; he has coined the term 'Beer Cardinality' in this excellent post on PowerShell and DSLs.