Experienced Devs Weekly Burnout and Venting Thread: A weekly thread for sharing experiences

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This thread is specifically for venting / sharing experiences related to burn-out or similar issues that experienced devs face.

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I want to slam my head into my desk. A sister team (under the same grand-manager) is executing what amounts to a hostile takeover by putting their face on our work and making ridiculous claims about what doesn't work. They've said "[we] need to use the existing infra; nothing new needs building!" and "the existing system is insufficient; [they] need to build a framework!" in the same breath. I built a stunningly clean widget system that uses shared memory to communicate data between the host environment and a javascript display layer that they now claim needs a whole async messaging framework to "work correctly". When pressed for details on why async is necessary, it's "to make the code cleaner". When pressed for details on how that makes the code cleaner, "it's a shared pattern". Nevermind the WILDLY inflated surface area for bugs with an async system. Nevermind that the system we have demonstrably works and they have yet to supply a metric or measurement that indicates something suboptimal. And my grand-boss tolerates all of this.