rajatsharma91

To be clear, this only works for closed source projects. For an open source project, nobody will care if their code gets "held for ransom" since its already out in the open.

You are absolutely right! The quantity of white noise is so much that at some point of time, you'll end up thinking that it would have been much easier had I started this project from scratch instead of inheriting this monstrous code!

You use CLI generators for hand-holding, so that you don't have to write lots of code but this works in only the basic hello world kind of projects. As your project gets larger, this same hand-holding gets in your way as you have to understand, twist and tweak someone else's code unnecessarily.

That's a good strategy, I occasionally use that too, but a better strategy is to keep isolating often repeated functionality in your project and turn them into library packages, so you can simply add them as a dependency from now on. This way, you boilerplate becomes smaller over time or you can even start from scratch easily.

Writing isn't an exact science, even the best of them fail to pen a single sentence occasionally, and even the worst of them have enough inspiration flowing sometimes to create mind-blowing literature (if only they'd care to write). We can't predict when someone can churn out a bestseller and when he cannot.