[lukeramsden]

Neither of those issues surprise me, from what I've seen of the project.

I'm not familiar with the project historically, as I've only been using it for about 2 months, but it seems to me like there's been an increase in activity since the start of the year - like the package modularization, new UI components, and new docs (which are still pretty bad to be honest). I totally agree it's sub-par to Firebase, and if you stray anywhere off the beaten path you're completely on your own (i.e. not using React, seemingly (!!)), but I do think it has the potential to become a viable alternative.

My primary issue with the platform is the choice of a NoSQL database, which, in my view, just doesn't match the majority of application requirements - if you want to do any sort of text search, you have to spin up a whole sodding Elasticsearch domain, which are expensive as hell for a new product and take literally 20-30 minutes every time they're updated with an `amplify push` command. I also waited over a week for one to be deleted not too long ago. That's why my plan is to replace the API with a Lambda function running Postgraphile with some JWK logic to use Cognito for authN, while keeping the idM and file storage stuff.