Agreed! This falls into the "weak product management" category imho. FWIW I think most devs could learn how to push back on poor decisions like this made by no

Agreed! This falls into the "weak product management" category imho. FWIW I think most devs could learn how to push back on poor decisions like this made by non-technical managers as it really shouldn't be the manager's responsibility to dictate technology choices for a solution. It should be their responsibility to push the dev team to make tradeoffs in order to achieve a business result. Devs who are good at understanding the business objectives and pushing the non-technical team to make better decisions are both wonderful to work with and command higher salaries / fees.