US vocabulary is confusing.

I'd also think that they would transparently degrade, just to prevent production outages for clients that are requesting Fable explicitly.

Small updates are in no way throwing away the entire thing. A monthly update is not a start-from-scratch redevelopment. The old version was not disposed of in the way you are trying to imply.

I'm right there with you, but this last sentence concerned me a bit.

In my most other "industries", craftsmanship is not _dead_, but it's been pushed to the wayside for (significantly) cheaper and more available alternatives. You can still get hand-made leather shoes, but very few want to pay $1000+ for them. You can still get art and paintings that someone poured weeks of work into, but most people buy their wall-art and chachkas at HomeGoods.

The main difference is the disposability assumption, and software is _unfortunately_ becoming more and more "disposable"[0], in the same way other products are. This mindset doesn't align well with software that must continue to operate in order to support some process. A disposable countdown app, sure, throw it away, but anything built around long running business processes should not be treated in that way.

I have concerns that focusing on software craftsmenship frames the issue as "boutique and bougie and unneccessarily expensive" vs "what I need for my usage", instead of "maintable and trustworthy" vs "disposable".

[0] Is that an initiative that benefits large model providers like OpenAI/Anthropic? maybe, but that's not my point here.

SpaceX/xAi/musk are currently in a good market for “happening to own 100k cards we have nothing to do with”, and are exercising that control as hard as they can.

I personally think this is the big secondary benefit that the administration is going for.

> While aliens who were inspected and admitted or paroled may request adjustment of status, as a general matter the discretionary approval of such a request is extraordinary given Congress’s intent that aliens should depart once the purpose for which they sought parole or nonimmigrant admission from DHS has been accomplished.

An entire visa class is not “obviously an exception”, or it would be clear.

The form-factor is a significant issue for real-world usage, and it's kind of unclear if there is a plan for a future product line given its (pretty abysmal) initial receiption.

Especially smaller startups, who grew somewhat quickly, and now "want to get SOC2 because customers want it". In practice this also (often, unfortunately) means "not all employees should have AWS admin creds, we should have some separation between environments, and we should know who has access to what".

For these companies SOC2 "requirements" can be the business-value line item that can get proper security and access-control patterns in place.

The "after they were fired" sounds catchy, but isn't even the biggest failure.

This organization shouldn't be permitted anywhere near government, or any non-public, data/information.

Tanstack infected a bunch of other packages; then resolving their issue doesn’t fix the widespread issue

Is there evidence that any downstream packages that may have pulled/included tanstack packages should be considered safe?

As far my opinion goes, this is biggest (and really only) reason.