>the people who love it don’t understand the extreme flexibility makes it fragile at scale and are willing to put up with its annoyances in an almost stockholm

>the people who love it don’t understand the extreme flexibility makes it fragile at scale and are willing to put up with its annoyances in an almost stockholm syndrome way The people who love it understand that its extreme flexibility makes it applicable everywhere, while academic purity mostly doesn't work in the real work. They also prioritize getting things done over petty squabbling, but they know how to leverage available tooling where reliability is crucial. (See, I can generalize too)