Thanks a bunch! You're a champ.

Yeah sometimes making these sorts of decisions could easily lead to big pitfalls on the way.

Regarding this part:

> "I also allowed the team to create their own modules instead of extending some existing node.js modules that existed in the community, which to me was a waste when I saw what we did."

This is technical debt as well by the definition of Wikipedia and some 101 CS books. Having enough contribution from a community could always be better of being used, unless that part of the technology is propriety in the product.