The Single-Page-App Morality Play
As someone that had my fair share of experience with mismanaged teams, this rings very true.For example I had to maintain a legacy PHP project, relatively old school PHP before there was even OO, plain HTML with just a bit of JS sprinkled it. Everyone complained about it and sure the code was horrible but I could dive in and be productive on day one.Same company, more recent project with a more modern stack, trying to follow all the OO patterns and everything. I was not even able to fix minor bugs in any reasonable time even studying the code for weeks. What happened? While the developers made good technical choices and the quality of the code in isolation was fine, it was horrible mismanaged. There was no continuity, just people working on it for a couple of days then doing something totally different and forgetting everything again on repeat. Individual design decisions were "industry best practice" but the end result was something I wished I could just delete.Everyone loves to play wiht the newest toys but you got to keep you developer vanity in check. Sometimes the boring CRUD app should use boring technology. With horrible management you will learn to hate what you once loved anyway.