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>It's about thick, untransparent software stacks that make simple problems difficult.

In this case, the flex framework is handling the marshaling/unmarshaling process incorrectly, but these are not simple problems. Handling things like names, or dates is deceptively difficult.

>There's a big bucketload of tiny components there...

Are you sure that's a good thing? First, anything works when you have a small code-base, and a significant portion of JavaScript ecosystem involves building fairly small self-contained applications. I have a strong feeling micro-frameworks fail hard when the line count gets over a certain threshold.