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Mostly because it's starting with dob, what happens when they require a phone number, address, credit card, or social security number? Faker can fake all those in that library. But you're absolutely right, for one dob it is massive overkill.
Also, I'm do test automation for my career. Litterally use faker daily for generating test data. Defaulting to it is natural and familiar. Most use what they're familiar with, rarely the best solution for a task.
Roger that! Thank you for being a developer and improving the ineffably magnificent world! ✨
In this case, we do relatively the same, and usually in database seeding and model factories, I believe, but personally I am more into the Laravel and Symfony, where the mentioned above PHP library is used there under the hood.
Please to stay safe!
Related: https://laravel.com/docs/13.x/eloquent-factories