[Ensorceled]

> It's the whole "THIS IS THE MOST AWESOME THING OF AWESOMENESS SINCE THE INVENTION OF AWESOMENESS!!!!" that kills me

I joined a project using node, npm and angular. Everybody said things like that; "this is so awesome", "JS is great", "never had so much fun".

I tried installing it and needed help at every step, "Oh right! We need to do this in our env because X and Y", "Oh, you missed a step, trust me, it's easier to nuke everything and start again now." I ended up with a 30+ step guide that nobody had documented before. We had a little less than 100 security vulnerabilities.

Almost every standup was an exercise in figuring out some strange problem with node or angular, sometimes several.

This team was definitely doing things poorly, but the unrelenting toxic positivity mixed with the "Rails and Django and Symfony all suck so bad" was hard to take, especially as we struggled to ship a really basic MVP.