You see this paradigm a lot between the back end and front end world. I have worked on backend systems, and a lot of time, there was a lot of focus on what is right, vs what works. In front end world, it's a roller coaster of just saying fuck it, and doing whatever you want because the framework will take care of it. At my current company, they used an alpha stage technology from Microsoft. As of current, there is no live reload, no error parser, no real linter, no interaction between forms, plaguing bugs everywhere, limitations of the framework causing blockers. But hey, apparently this was the best solution available ...