I remember I had this argument with a CTO before about cognitive load. I was concerned of the sheer amount of code behind React/Redux for what could've been jus

I remember I had this argument with a CTO before about cognitive load. I was concerned of the sheer amount of code behind React/Redux for what could've been just a simple plain server rendered with jQuery sprinkled. Her answer was "if Facebook (before meta) is doing it then so should we." I said we aren't facebook. But all the engineers sided with her. Said startup failed after burning $XX million dollars for a product nobody bought.