"Go with what you know." It even rhymes. I'm all for learning stuff, and if I'm working on a project that has no particular deadline (or a deadline that's far

"Go with what you know." It even rhymes. I'm all for learning stuff, and if I'm working on a project that has no particular deadline (or a deadline that's far enough out that I can deal with frustrations of learning), by all means use new and shiny. But if I have a real goal and a deadline, I'm going to use something I already know in and out so I can spend my time making, not learning. If I get something to production and find that it's performance is horrendous, I can always come back and optimize (or rewrite) later, but it's better to get something out and see if it even works than to be fighting a new syntax or picking middleware.