Nothing like the lead engineer fiddling with the tooling and the tech stack every day and not mentioning it to anyone, to sap productivity. I started to anticipate spending the first couple of hours every day tweaking to my development environment and dependencies to resolve today's mystical crash.
And I felt too junior to say anything. I figured that if the grown-ups want the new shiny, it must be worth something. In actual fact, our real-time, React-Native, ES7-experimental-flag would have been as easily built in php.
I’ve worked in that sort of environment before. Watch out for senior staff obsessively following certain people promoting bandwagons built on lies, conferences and marketing. Next thing you know you hit a wall that’s metres thick and high.
And I felt too junior to say anything. I figured that if the grown-ups want the new shiny, it must be worth something. In actual fact, our real-time, React-Native, ES7-experimental-flag would have been as easily built in php.