[JohnBooty]

re: Bazaar vs. Cathedral

I think it's an obvious truth that too little innovation/choice is bad. I don't think you'll find any arguments there!

Is there a point where too much of it becomes harmful? For close to ten years now, I feel that experienced and inexperienced devs alike have been confused and repulsed by the utter state of constant wheel-reinvention in the frontend space.

(Perhaps to my own detriment, I've focused on backend work because I'm waiting for the front-end situation to stabilize. Which of course may never happen. Maybe "full-stack dev" is something that will wind up in the history bin next to "webmaster")

     It’s easier for some to just be prescribed a specific SDK. 

This is a little bit insulting. Nobody wants to "be prescribed a specific SDK" - there's a large middle ground between that, and the current situation which has been chaotic for nearly a whole generation.

I think the situation with backend frameworks is sort of what many would like to see. Django, Rails, Express, etc. No shortage of choice and there is innovation. Yet I don't think anybody would call it chaotic. For me that is a happy middle ground.