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Successful projects have a tendency to stop being simple as time goes by. Users start asking for more features, scaling issues crop up, etc, etc.
Hearing the word ideation would cause an allergic in people who are sensitive against Americanisms.
British are also notorius for their indirect way of expressing their thoughts and feelings. Instead of saying they do not believe in your idea or your ability to execute it, they'd prefer to use compensation as a get out.
There's a language called Gagauz, spoken in Moldova. It has a Turkic vocabulary and Indo-European grammar. It was, in its infancy, likely to be a Romanian substrate, Cuman superstrate creole.
An Proto Altaic substrate with various superstrates must have played out quite a few times.
For the record I always encourage candidates to start with the simplest solution and tell them we can then chat about improvements after we get the basics right.
Having candidates write code is always a good filter. You'd be surprised by the amount of people who can't write a nested loop with a decade of experience under their belt.
There are a lot of things with HoL but being unelected is not one of them.
Old money vs new miney strife is an age old thing and I can assure you none of the tech barons is rubbing shoulders with former barons let alone American gentry.