The good thing about anecdotes is that they convey an idea in a concise manner. The bad thing about anecdotes is that they convey someone's idea about a real th

The good thing about anecdotes is that they convey an idea in a concise manner. The bad thing about anecdotes is that they convey someone's idea about a real thing which we don't know about and have to rely on their storytelling which is usually self serving and rather subjective. We don't know so many things about the project that all the solutions I see in the comments could be wrong for one reason or another.