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[mdoms]

> They're saying that they found learning about types to be difficult and stressful

No, they're saying that types (which they don't understand) are "over-engineering". This is, frankly, not acceptable to me.

[jolux → mdoms]

They're describing how they felt before learning about types.

[mdoms → jolux]

Yes. Like I said.

> I'm glad the author was able to move on from this, but it is utterly pervasive in some parts of our industry.

[eyelidlessness → mdoms]

It's entirely possible you have a language barrier, but you should know that there's a meaningful difference between past and present tense when you're representing what other people said.

(Edit: added clarification of which speaker's tense was important)