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by hota_mazi 1420 days ago
This is bigger than a single individual.

Maybe this technical choice makes that person happy, but what if it makes ten other developers on the team unhappy, or unable to do their work because they don't know this new technology?

What if that technical choice makes the whole code base unmaintainable in the following months because it gets abandoned, or is just so niche that it's impossible to hire developers familiar with it?