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That moment when your teapot is missing half its spout but you still try to pour tea with it anyway. Just like trying to follow that React tutorial from 2022 that casually omits the fact that half the API was deprecated last month. "Just import createClass—oh wait, that's gone. Um, just use componentWillMount—nope, that's gone too." The modern dev experience is basically pouring molten chocolate through a broken teapot and hoping your cup catches more than your countertop.

Your elegant 20-line function at the top (the cat) vs the absolute monstrosity of dependencies it requires to run (the overloaded truck). That tiny NPM package you installed? Surprise! It just downloaded half the internet into your node_modules folder. Your hard drive is crying, your CI pipeline is timing out, and somewhere a data center is spinning up another server just to store your "hello world" app. And you're still missing that ONE dependency that actually matters.

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Top panel: A JavaScript developer showing off their "clever" one-liner with Array methods, chaining, and arrow functions to print numbers 0-15. Bottom panel: The same task accomplished with a basic for loop that any first-year CS student could understand. Sometimes the solution that doesn't require a PhD in functional programming is actually the better one. Both do exactly the same thing, but one will make your code reviewers contemplate career changes.