[59nadir]

> Then they pass this lack of wisdom onto the next generation of juniors, and the cycle continues until no-one remembers that it doesn't have to be this way, to the point where people think that paying $99/month for a third-party tool makes more sense than "having to deal with your own authentication", as if authentication is some huge burden and not a basic cookie-cutter feature that's as old as the internet.

It's significantly worse than that. You have developer YouTubers now that are megaphoning this exact lack of wisdom out to thousands of developers, either misguided older ones or completely new ones.

The four listed things by one of the ancestors in this thread look like they basically came from one fairly popular YouTuber who advocates for exactly this type of thinking very loudly and with dubious credentials to do it.