Pilgrims get the blame for a lot of things, not always justly. I remember staying at the albergue in Ourense when a friend asked the hospitalero if there were any more clothes drying racks? Only one had been put out in an albergue that accommodated 40+ people. The hospitalero looked away for a second from the telenovela he was watching on TV and said no, the pilgrims had taken them all. My friend, a sassy German woman, replied: “Oh, that explains why I’ve seen all those pilgrims walking the Camino with clothes drying racks strapped to the outside of their packs!” Now if he had said that the pilgrims had broken them all I would have found that more believable.
There are some good people working at the junta albergues and some who are possibly just interested in doing the minimum necessary which may not include tidying up after the relatively few pilgrims who leave dirty dishes in the sink.