Quite high, actually. Remember this question is motivated by the pitfalls of Angular, which many "single guys" have legitimate architectural criticisms of: h

Quite high, actually. Remember this question is motivated by the pitfalls of Angular, which many "single guys" have legitimate architectural criticisms of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8651641 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8651641 Your reasoning about facebook and React should apply equally well to Angular and google, if it were valid. The fact is that with complex technology, even very smart, well-funded people routinely miss things and make decisions that turn out to be wrong in retrospect.