[marcosdumay]

I just consumed an API where errors were marked with a "success": false field.

The "success" is never true. If it's successful, it's not there. Also, a few endpoints return 500 instead, because of course they do. Oh, and one returns nothing on error and data on success, because, again, of course it does.

Anyway, if you want a clearer symptom that your development stack is shit and has way too much accidental complexity, there isn't any.

[SoftTalker]

This is the real world. You just deal with it (at least I do) because fighting it is more work and at the end of the day the boss wants the project done.