[megadal]

> That is a common misconception that only occurs in software and is exceptionally common to JS. If you want to avoid foot guns set validation criteria: lint, test automation, strong types, and so forth.

The thing is, a developer can do all these things and make ugly UXes. They could also do none of them and make brilliant ones.

> My repeated failure is not getting out of JS sooner.

Have to agree. You sound like a strong backend engineer who was trapped in a frontend engineers body for years.