[tombert]

> this guy is a dev just trying to navigate tradeoffs and ship the best app he can

I suspect a lot (most?) of apps in the App Store and the Play Store fall into this category, just like most repos on Github. People are putting their projects out there; obviously they're not immune to criticism, but I think it's important to remember that most of these people aren't Tim Cook, they're not making a living promoting stuff and taking shit people throw, they're just engineers sharing code with the world.

> Also the tradeoffs are never as straightforward as one would think.

Yep, completely agree; the obvious "solution" is to make everything configurable, and that can work to some extent, but then you risk an "oops I reinvented interpreters" moment, and then you made the app impossible to use for non-geeks. There's almost never a "correct" way to do it to satisfy everyone.