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You just described my last employer to a T, and all because of ego. They kept solving problems that the framework they used already had solutions for. You were actively discouraged from coming up with any different solutions, because the VP of development was stupid and didn’t want anybody changing the patterns he used when they started the company. This included things like “using base classes or modules”, any third party libraries, code linters, database views, and many others.

It was a huge waste of YC money, but the money kept pouring in.