Yea, I agree. Having the endgame solution in place at the beginning is often a mistake and can actually foil your ability to get to the end game.

I'll admit, I only recognized that mistake because I've made it myself, over and over. It's hard to push code knowing it'll need improvements later, or knowing how scopes will change. I find myself repeating "perfect is the enemy of good" because I struggle to just let a solution be good enough.

It's tough to be consulted and watch people go against your advice like that, though.

Sometimes I'm annoying is that It seems that some cloud services (I imagine Firebase) only provides endgame solution for datastore.