There are a lot of insufferable tech leads that make the decision. I know how to spot them because I’m insufferable too. My only saving grace is that I make a deliberate attempt to always say to myself ‘would this feel like cognitive overhead to others?’, and walk away from picking that fight.

Many people don’t do that. I’ve been on projects where every other week the tech lead shows up and adds more and more layers to the stack. Unless you want to constantly fight, you just let it go and deal with it like a professional. Otherwise, I would have reached across my screen by now and slapped someone.

I can tell you this, there’s someone out there that’s going to build something (at an actual paying job with other humans) with bleeding edge Deno, DenoDB, Typescript, AWS infra sometime very soon for no good reason. There’s not enough slaps in the world to stop them. The fear of god does not exist in these people because no one ever says shit.