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Kind of goes without saying, but the flip side of having all of these tools under a single opinionated umbrella is that if any piece of it sucks, people are going to drop the whole toolchain. Hence this is a high risk project, especially because everything is being built from scratch.

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There’s a constantly swinging pendulum between “one tool to rule it all” and “bring your own tool.” Newcomers to an ecosystem get tired learning all the accumulated toolchain and want to build a thing to solve every problem. But it is always easier to build a tool that does only one thing, and gradually people replace each part of that one tool with better standalone tools, the ecosystem disintegrates into pieces. The cycle goes on. There’s no right or wrong, only nature.

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