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This trope of "if you were just skilled enough" needs to die. Things cost money. They cost money to maintain and evolve. If a solution requires exceptionally

This trope of "if you were just skilled enough" needs to die. Things cost money. They cost money to maintain and evolve. If a solution requires exceptionally high skill that means it is very expensive and pushes employees to their limits. Meaning it is not a healthy technological solution. It's funny how the article goes on about "If managers were just good enough". But the problem is managers face real world constraints. They can't just give us unlimited resources to live out our complex ego-driven tech fantasies.

zerkten 5y ago
>> This trope of "if you were just skilled enough" needs to die. Things cost money. They cost money to maintain and evolve. I don't disagree terribly with the trope aspect, but people are hurting from the cost to evolve and maintain projects using approaches that sit at the extremes. There needs to be some understanding, and possible embrace, of elements of the middle ground in order to be truly maintainable in a lot of cases. My call to action would be more for the innovators and framework developers to think more about this. Companies can try to solve it for themselves, but forces like staff turnover prevent meaningful progress for most.