>You should almost always choose the "dumbest" possible technology used in the "dumbest" possible way so that you can hire anyone and they can step in and be productive when you need to scale. It minimizes ramp up time. It minimizes deployment and operational complexity. It minimizes the ways the system can fail. Literally build the dumbest thing that solves the core business problem that creates value for the user and then figure it out from there.

Yes!!! Spot on. I always say “make it so simple an idiot can immediately understand it, or me when I’m hungover”. Choose the most boring, simple…yet reliable, stable, well supported tech you can. Focus on business problems and not if you can use fancy-new-tech to solve them!