If the founder had started by talking with people in the problem space, he could have discovered what problems were actually worth solving before investing any money and effort into a product.
Everything after that happened were downstream effects of creating something without a defensible reason why and for whom.
I found php’s array methods lacking as well. The inconsistencies are a pain. I ended up porting many of the methods from lodash, underscore, etc. to php: https://github.com/mpetrovich/dash
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If the founder had started by talking with people in the problem space, he could have discovered what problems were actually worth solving before investing any money and effort into a product.
Everything after that happened were downstream effects of creating something without a defensible reason why and for whom.