> As a holder of shares in a company for retirement, why would I want to in any way enable short sellers to artificially drive the price of those shares into the ground, or even bankrupt the company?
This seems unnecessarily antagonistic - maybe you’re haven’t fully explored what it offers. FastApi is very transparent that it is a layer built on top of Starlette https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/features/#starlette-features. It also layers in several other features at really useful abstraction levels by bringing in Pydantic, and I think the dependency injection system and OpenApi integration was mostly built by Sebastian.
It’s got fantastic documentation and tutorials. For a small dev or full stack team, and especially someone just starting out, it feels unparalleled in what it gives you out of the box.
So you can buy more shares on sale, clearly.