It is, and this is highly judgmental and offensive. Nobody is doing this for "aggrandizement".

Also, all of this is just rationalization, and will keep being until:

1) People start blaming companies for not having the spine to say no to misguided projects by employees.

2) People start blaming Companies for not having the spine to hire people based on past experiences with the craft of programming itself, but rather asking them to have a certain box ticked in their CV.

If one wants to program in X in order to better feed their family and the market says they need to have used X professionally, it is in their right to do X at the workplace.

This is not only expected of them, this is how the whole industry is set up.

They're just following the rules, period.