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Appealing to "best practice" without concrete, specific reasoning is a big one.

It is org specific, I have already triggered myself and need to find a safe space.

"We need to build something that scales" to justify virtually every single source of complexity.

Especially when then understanding of scaling only distinguishes between "unmaintainable monolith" and "full-blown web scale".

"Move fast and break things".

At 48 I've stopped fixing other people's things.

Prob OT but ‘break things’ old Zuck sure did. A bit sad given the billions folks made in the meantime.

I almost said that I’m surprised they weren’t held accountable… but we all know better.