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Yes, this. Almost every project I've worked on (I'm the only developer for a small automotive manufacturing company) is exactly as described. Quality wants a new 'system', and they think that I should know everything about their job and be able to create the perfect system to streamline their processes. I write it, and then spend about twice as much time adding/removing features to create the system they should have thought about and asked me to build in the first place.
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@Johnnyy J.
I completely agree with your points.
I have been writing about this issue for many years; especially when it comes to the divide between ASP.NET WebForms and ASP.NET MVC.
The adoption of the MVC standard in the .NET environments made everything more complex, less intuitive, and far more detailed than it has to be. True, WebForms may not be as efficient in some respects but it is a mature technology, which is now seen as old and "uncool". As a result, newer developers are rushing to try out every cantankerous JavaScript tool they can get their hands on.
I just upgraded my own business site to one that is now built with "responsive design"; the template was designed by AllWebCo Design. I converted it to ASP.NET WebForms with practically no issues using all of the standard tools and AJAX. Though the site now works quite well I did notice a drop in the efficiency of the load times compared to straight WebForms. This is a result of the increased usage of JavaScript and CSS.
Individually, many of the new tools are quite decent but together they create a polyglot set of development environments that add a lot of strain to the websites that are built with them. Add to this the increased complexities and efficiency will go down in general. Take a look at the news sites that now often take forever to load simply because of long running scripts and poor design.
A lot of this is what is now being incorporated into business websites and web applications in general creating poor results.
The reaction to this is a very slow movement back to something akin to WebForms as tool vendors attempt to create similar tools for the MVC world that we already have with WebForms; and with much less complexity.
As I have also stated in my writings several times, until the underlying foundations of a technology changes (ie: Internet), the tools used to process applications on these foundations will only be able to generate so much efficiency, no matter which ones are used.
This is why I have found it so inane that the profession has so willy-nilly dropped proven technologies for unproven new tools that really yield very few differences in the final product. The results are showing...
Steve Naidamast
Sr. Software Engineer
Black Falcon Software, Inc.
blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
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Outsourcing the web site to a bunch of self abusers. Or, not outsourcing it to a good web design and development shop.
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. - Liber AL vel Legis 1:40, Aleister Crowley
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Basically what I said, only in a lot fewer words... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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C-P-User-3 wrote: What do you believe are the factors which cause this ?
Silly questions in QA. 
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The marketing department.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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A butterfly beating its wings in Brazil.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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Sounds like the fruit of what some organizations call the "good idea fairy".
Oh, and no actual development process being used. "Just code it, it's only a web site!" 
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Many sites I see lately all come from a similar template.
The template doesn't apply to all solutions.
I would believe that management never uses their site.
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C-P-User-3 wrote: Consider an organization comprised of humans
The answer is in the question!
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Training from Microsoft?
Will Rogers never met me.
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Not enough head cooks. Everybody knows the soup is better when you have lots of head cooks all adding the ingredients they think will make it better.
Yeah, I'm being metaphorical and sarcastic.
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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SharePoint. 
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Same issue with the website of a company I recently worked for. Basically the CEO thought he could design it, but has no skills at organization or structure. Then gave it to a "creative" company without any requirements. They basically took the old website, and filled it with all kinds of multimedia. Again, no structure or organization (as expected with no requirements). The one item that the CEO was proudest of was a video (that takes forever to load) that is shown every time you go to the website!
I now am contracting to the company, and one of things I may be working on is fixing this website (gotta love billable hours).
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The boss's kid knew a guy, etc.
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Management standing over the web programmer with a whip, staring at his watch, and saying, "Upper management has decided the web will be put online at the end of the day."
That's been my experience.
I've had web sites that took over a month to write in Classic ASP be scheduled to be converted to ASP.NET in only a week by management without bothering to consult with me on how long it would take.
Psychosis at 10
Film at 11
Those who do not remember the past, are doomed to repeat it.
Those who do not remember the past, cannot build upon it.
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I couldn't think of anything, despite Trojan efforts, and I'm no Johnny-come-lately at this.
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What the...? What is the world coming to?!??!?
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Obviously the condom was used a generation too late to be fully effective.
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He was killed trying to steal something supposed to protect him...
A great candidate for Darwin Awards, imho.
I never finish anyth
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When you gotta come, you gotta go!
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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I cannot condone such condom actions...
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Obviously, inept Safe Crackers
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