I don't even know if I disagree with you on these details. The point is we bit off too much complexity on the front-end when we shouldn't have had to given the

I don't even know if I disagree with you on these details. The point is we bit off too much complexity on the front-end when we shouldn't have had to given the vanilla nature of what we did in terms of user experience, but somehow nobody on the eng side questioned it. For me as a dev turned PM it was screamingly obvious.