alt Hacker NewsYeah, this is very real, and I think it can inflict paralysis on programmers with a certain level of experience and 'i know better' syndrome. Or even a 'it _might_ be better' type syndrome.
Sometimes, you might really know better, and it doesn't matter. You build the thing with the wrong tools, with a crummy framework, with a product at the end that will probably not succeed. But that is okay, hopefully you learn something and your team and your org learn something.
And if not, that is okay, sometimes its just a job and you need a paycheck and a place to be from 9 to 5.
This is why I love the bootstrapping stories here on HN.
Like one anecdote where they were building an "app" for automatic hotel reservations IIRC.
The "app" was a form that fed into a Google Sheet, where the founders themselves took the data and called the hotels.
When they got some income, they automated small bits of the process one by one.
Sometimes it's good to just have _something_ out there and see if there's a market for it before carefully crafting a beautiful piece of software nobody will ever use. It all depends on whether you're doing it to solve a problem for someone or for the process of writing code. Both are perfectly valid reasons.