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The lawyers are largely copying & pasting. They come up with a template that works for most of their clients and then re-use it when a new one comes along.

I worked in Massachusetts (which allows non-competes) early on in my career, and at one point took my contract to a lawyer. He was like "This was written by a California law firm. It has clauses that are specific to California law." (One of them was that it specifically did not have a non-compete, carved out in the contract.)