[minimaul]

I wholeheartedly agree with this.

I have worked on Magento 2 stores (even got their training, which was atrocious!), and... it was awful. It would take a LOT of money to get me to touch it ever again.

It eats error messages, the logging is awful, it's unbelievably slow uncached (turning off the config cache used to make things take minutes to load), the plugin ecosystem is full of badly written messes that grovel around in the internals of Magento 2 and break built-in features so that you then have to go and fix those yourself later, and it's almost impossible to make a nontrivial store without maintaining your own bugfixes to several core packages.

edit: oh, and you couldn't actually upload images because it processed them all in-request using gd or imagemagick and adding more than about three would make the requests time out.

Run, don't walk.