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Not a good read to be honest. Author does not sound like a solid programmer. Examples he is giving actually say he might be a “change chaser” - A person who would make a change just because he can add something new to his CV.

The fact that guys he was talking about used PostGres to store JSON as a text field literally means that they chose a simplicity over introducing another dependency from no-sql db with all the cost of supporting it. Unless one needs to search over information stored in JSON it is perfectly and probably disarable to store it as a text field.

Author remark “they spent years for what they can spent weeks just by using a framework” is a proof that he has little or no experience of doing such things himself. No framework can save you so much time. I was designing UI using frameworks and using just basic language tools. Difference is in trade off obetween quality of standard framework components over flexibility of desinging your own. Time is not so much different and might even take longer with frameworks as adoption time for frameworks could be long especially for teams with a high turnover.

I decided to not read till the end because author did not present himself as a person whose opinion might be useful.