I never read such texts and CVs, I always just ask: "tell me a story".

Nobody cares about your unknown name, nobody cares about your "years of experience" and titles other people not from your field don't understand. Who are you? What do you want? Why? Why are you here? Why have you learned those skills? Why I need you? What value you will give me? Why me?

Stories are always unique and coupled only to your own life and your own path, those useless papers even robots can generate and all they look the same. Not mentioning that story-telling is essential skill and it is not easy. In software it is important, since writing experience is how your story evolves from the beginning till conclusion (final app).

Definitely over used, to the extreme. I have pondered this myself.

Funny thing is, (a) I am guilty of following this trope as well and (b) I have yet to see a good portfolio that doesn't start this way. It's almost as if using this wording means you have graduated to a certain level of skill lol...

I tried to switch mine up a little though, by having my "Hi / Hello" iterate through different translations (Hola, Bonjour, etc..)

Same shit, different languages :)