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by twawaaay 1172 days ago
I would add a bit of my own experience.

Products like this are great. But if you already know the technology, know what is happening and you are using it to basically eliminate a bunch of coding or setup tasks that you would have to do.

The problem this is only great for a certain type of knowledgeable developer who is also setting up the system.

The next person that comes or a junior developer who does not have grasp of the underlying tech will just see a bunch of magic. But he will be required to be productive with it.

So if the original devs leave and don't get people with grasp of the underlying tech, the new people will start accumulating technical debt at an ever faster rate without ever being able to pay it back. Because with so little knowledge and expectation of performance, whenever something small happens that requires you to learn stuff you will skip learning and just move stuff around hoping some random change will fix it.

So I will amend my original statement:

"Products like this are great." But only if you are working on the project alone and don't expect anybody else to join it in the future.