> It's like any other piece of tech: once you internalize the mental model and are able to translate those abstractions in your language of choice everything cl

> It's like any other piece of tech: once you internalize the mental model and are able to translate those abstractions in your language of choice everything clicks. While this is true, I think the ultimate assesment of a technology is how easy is it for someone skilled at doing similar work to internalize the model and abstractions. A tech stack can become really successful only if this is easy and relatively quick, otherwise, it will meet a lot of resistance. Partly because it's hard to master, but partly because so many people will be misusing it (which makes an even bigger annoyance for someone who's trying to get to a proper mental model). As such, I've come to appreciate only models that majority of developers can easily get right on the first go: or rather, models which are hard to get wrong.