To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Designs Patterns. The methods are extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical computer science and enterprise philosophy most of the patterns will go over a typical code ninja's head. There's also the Richard Helm's legalistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation of business solutions - his personal philosophy draws heavily from fǎshù zhī shì literature, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these patterns, to realise that they're not just code templates they say something deep about computability and software itself. As a consequence people who dislike Design Patterns truly ARE idiots - of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the subtle jabs in Ralph Johnson's perennial tradition of mentioning "strategy pattern" whenever abstraction layers exceed 2, which itself is a cryptic reference to Donald Knuth's magnum opus of low-level design; The Art of Computer Programming. I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those diversity hires scratching their heads in confusion as Gang of Four genius wit unfolds itself on their "hi-dpi gaming laptop" screens. What fools.. how I pity them.
And yes, by the way, i DO have a first edition hardcover signed by Erich Gamma himself. And no, you cannot see it. It's for the ladies' eyes only- and even then they have to demonstrate that they're reached 5% of my combined LOC count beforehand. Nothing personal, code monkeys.