as someone who worked on Dojo during the Age Of The jQuery Developer, I know this all too well 
of course, but there was certainly a lot of conflating enabling with marketing
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"those guys are just winning cuz they're slick" misses the point
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focus was on enabling novices vs. more advanced scenarios at the time
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why I brought up Dojo to begin with. Often seen as "unnecessary complexity"
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reminded of Alan Perlis: "Simplicity does not precede complexity but follows it"
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or de Saint-Exupéry, "perfection is achieved by subtracting, not by adding"
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I find those axioms unhelpful :P you're always adding smth, & decentralization needs coordination
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of course! you can't remove things you actually need :) and some things are irreducibly complex
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more a reminder to avoid preemptively making things complex/over-generic Just In Case
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