[teacup50]

If the technology that's boring to "early engineers" has significantly more weaknesses than the alternatives, then, simply: the wrong people were hired.

[100k]

Stripe is worth $5 billion. I don't think they hired the wrong people.

[teacup50]

Ex post facto justification of complex interdependent decisions and consequences by virtue of market valuation?

That's just dumb survival bias endemic to the YC camp.

It's not something you should actually base business and technical decisions on.