I think some people are missing the conflict of interest because the author blurs the lines between his personal opinion and his business. He turned his personal brand into his business and uses his name as his brand.
No, what's going on is that you don't understand what "conflict of interest" refers to.
Different people having different interests, as when the apple company says you should buy apples even though you prefer oranges, is just a regular conflict. A conflict of interest is when one person has two different interests. The apple company isn't experiencing a conflict in your example.
Pretty sure that's just marketing.
A lot of product pages will spell out features they have and list competitors that don't have those features.
It's even worse: that Nike has a conflict of interest because they think that wearing shoes while running is good, even though it would be extremely weird if a running shoe company thought that running with shoes is bad.
Remove the business from the equation and the opinion is fine — it's the existence of a business that aligns with the opinion that creates the conflict! Galaxy brain definition.
He has motivations that make him not impartial, but that's not usually termed a "conflict of interest."
You're just using the term strangely. Usually the phrase "conflict of interest" implies the person has some sort of official commitment / obligation / duty to another party that is put in jeopardy because of another conflicting interest.
But this is just some guy selling stuff. He hasn't made any official commitments; he doesn't have any official duty or obligation to remain impartial.
By your definition, anyone selling anything has a conflict of interest because they want money from their customers, which may be against the customers' best interests.
I really don't get the reasoning here...
I wouldn’t be surprised if he offered Next.js courses if it becomes popular enough in the future. For now, the anti-Nextjs push seems like a clear defensive play to steer people back to the course material he already had for sale.
The whole course he's been advertising is based on remix, which came up YEARS after next.js rose to popularity.
Where did you get this info that you were so confident on?
https://www.reddit.com/r/nextjs/comments/17giozq/why_i_wont_...
https://www.reddit.com/r/reactjs/comments/17gl76d/why_i_wont...
Last time I truly used NextJS was in 2020 (it was v9), and that was only to make a statically generated brochure type site. I had started the site with Gatsby and didn't love Gatsby, so I switched to NextJS and loved it.
Recently I did start up a Next v13 project using the new App Router. But I haven't gotten that far past the initial scaffold and creating a couple components. Seeing all of these complaints about v13, especially the App Router, are making me want to scrap that and use something else.
This article really needs to be taken in the context of the author’s target audience: He sells courses that primarily target web dev juniors doing learning projects and small projects. That’s why he includes the “most of you reading this” disclaimer in the article:
> So, can you use SQLite? For the vast majority of you reading this, the answer is “yes.” Should you use SQLite? I’d say that still for the majority of you reading this, the answer is also “yes.”
Pushing strong contrarian opinions is part of his social media marketing style. He’s also pushing a “why I won’t use next.js” article and opinion on his social media, while conveniently omitting the obvious conflict of interest that he sells courses that don’t happen to cover Next.js.