Well, having been on the other side, sometimes the Dev is also trying to fight the good fit whilst having to use some crap 3rd party system/library that’s imposed from above because somebody at the C-suite level after suitably dinned and wined (and who knows what more, including implied or even explicit promises for the future of their career) signed a massive agreement with one of the big corporate software providers so now those of us at the coalface have to justify to money spent on that contract by using every POS from said big corporate software provider.

I mean, I mean be exagerating the corrupt nature of the deal (in my experience its more a mix of incompetence and the high-level management trading favours using company money) but even competent devs that know their thing can’t really do much when they have to use some massive framework from some vendor for “corporate reasons” which is a bug-riddled POS that doesn’t even have proper support.