The Firebase suite has been _fantastic_ for developing our app, to quote one of the app developers: "[...] but from start until now, I feel we have saved years

The Firebase suite has been _fantastic_ for developing our app, to quote one of the app developers: "[...] but from start until now, I feel we have saved years of shitty bugs, and that it is one of the best decisions we have done". We still use Firebase for the app, and that's probably not going to change in a long time. We hit some snags when we started requiring a performant API, which is why we don't use Firebase for that any more, although we still use Firestore and a lot of other stuff for the platform. As every other technology it's choosing what pains you want, and the current Firesbase pains are quite easy to live with.