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Sounds like my current project. I was tasked to start working on a project and was told I could use "whatever [I] want." So me and the other frontend guy started working using Clojurescript with Reagent and Re-frame (highly recommend). Save for a few hiccups along the way the project was stable and fast.

It went swimmingly right up until QA was more or less told not to file any issues found, and then those issues were used as a reason we needed to use a TypeScript and Material-UI app he wrote over a weekend and said was "almost done." The bugs in question turned out to be minor visual bugs, and like I said, none of them were filed or even mentioned until this replacement got dropped in our lap. In fact, no problems of any kind were reported until this moment.

Instead it took another 6-8 months to get to feature parity with the app we'd already developed and now thrown away (or feature "parody" as my boss put it), it was full of bugs, development is slow and pretty directionless, my boss gets bored and contributes code that runs in the O(n^12) range (yes, really) before languishing in a draft PR for months and then getting dumped on us to actually implement for real, and it's been a year and a half with no end even remotely in sight.

I really want to find somewhere else but that doesn't seem like a realistic goal right now. Not to mention my enjoyment of programming died years ago and I haven't written code for fun in as long as I care to remember.