Are they enthusiastic about anything? There's lots of people who are generally unenthusiastic about anything having to do with work. I've worked with many programmers who never opened a book or magazine once they left school. Not that these were the good ones, but you know the type.

From your cow-orkers point of view, BTW, your complaint might be viewed as equivalent to:

We're a group of carpenters. One of our young carpenters thinks hammers with fiberglass handles are just wonderful. He keeps trying to talk about them; he even has meetings about them. He invited one of the leading fiberglass hammer handle manufacturers to come speak to us. But we don't understand his fascination with what (to us) is just a useful tool...