[ToPutItBluntly]

How did you last 26 months with that? Life is way too short for those kind of games. Congratulations on getting out.

[angersock]

I believed in the product and in my team, and was still slightly on fire from my own most recent attempt at founding a startup.

There's no shame in picking a suboptimal solution if it addresses stability and anxiety concerns--it's just important not to stay if things get better and you can't upgrade the solution.