It's easy to counter criticism if your product has no canonical ways of doing anything. Just say the critics should use some other component or approach for eve

It's easy to counter criticism if your product has no canonical ways of doing anything. Just say the critics should use some other component or approach for every single thing they try to do. Of course, those other components/versions may have an entirely different set of issues, but since you don't have to deal with those yourself or consider trade-offs or even be consistent over time in your replies, you make the original point sound completely invalid. Just throw a bunch of options into the conversation and shift the burden of proof on the other guy. Yay. I find it especially ridiculous when people use future versions of stuff to deflect high level criticism of some ecosystem as it is right now. It is one thing when the critic has a specific issue thar is a show stopper. It is an entirely different issue when someone describes their overall experience.