I really dislike the deciding something is an antipattern and then trying to assert that everyone else should change and feel bad. But then, I program a lot by

I really dislike the deciding something is an antipattern and then trying to assert that everyone else should change and feel bad. But then, I program a lot by my self, and still use Singletons when it's the simplest way to get something done. As someone who is fairly well a generalist polyglot programmer there is a definite truth that I will never be as good as someone who specializes. Am I capable of doing layout and custom stuff with CSS, yes. Am I great at it, no. In a development team, I'm going to do the things that bring the most value. That's going to mean doing things like GraphQL services and DevOps before I do the "front end", design based work. But then I'm also a heretic when it comes to software engineering. I'm far more interested in getting a product out into the market and starting to learn than I am making something gold plated with the newest hottest tech and spending 18 months building a super resilient platform that does not have product market fit (and will never have product market fit).