[Glyptodon]

Having worked as a basically one person Rails shop I think one of the things that makes a big difference on productivity is whether you can say no to the big react front end or not. (And I say that having come to like GQL: It's still like 5x the workload to have a react app + Rails back end.)

[julik]

I'd say having the luxury to say "No" to things is underrated, and it does come packaged with small teams.