alt Hacker NewsThis is trading a good developer experience for a bad user experience. There are situations where it makes sense to force manual retry, but there's no reason to apply one universal rule to all possible situations. Lack of considering nuance for your situation is just intellectual laziness.
My point was that just throwing exponential backoffs at the retry problem is not a magic solution
I don't follow how being cautious about avoiding multiplicative layers of backoffs is trading a good developer experience for a bad user experience. The described situation is an awful user experience. Simply adding a retry and calling it a day sounds like the easy developer experience at the expense of the user experience