In the last year alone, I have seen two completely different clients in two completely different industries sink months and months into framework upgrades. Tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of dollars rewriting entire projects just to maintain feature parity with the previous iteration. This is not meaningful or productive work—it is time sunk into just keeping themselves at square one. A form of open-source vendor lock-in.

The saddest part of it all is that these were ex-clients who had to re-hire me because with the ‘upgrades’ came severe site-speed regressions. As good as it may be for business, I hate going through the same work with the same client more than once. After all, you should never need to call pest control twice.