[WorldMaker]

Yes, the somewhat unfavorable view of LaunchDarkly is that it is If-Condition-As-A-Service. (They add a lot more value than just that, of course. Just that's the raw nutshell of what they do.)

I have had too many conversations complicated by the fact that when I say off hand "well just use a feature flag for that" or "maybe you should wrap that in a feature flag" they picture massive abstractions and infrastructure and often what I mean is simply "add a configurable variable somewhere, the environment or the user table in a database or a JSON file or something else, then add boring if statements checking that flag". Sometimes it is okay to just start with the basics.

(Again, not to disparage LaunchDarkly. Having "proper" infrastructure for it can provide a lot of nice-to-haves and there are definite benefits to the tools that they value add. Just that sometimes the marketing of tools like that does come at the cost of over-complicating the discussion of the basics of the thing.)