We had a similar scenario at my workplace, but with React rather than Vue.

We wanted an internal component to be able to change the page title, which ended up with a project to transition to using react-helmet. It ended up taking a few weeks before this project completed.

Which is nuts, because you can also just write your own little one-liner to manipulate the title

```ts

const setTitle = (t: string): void => document.title = t

```

Yeah, that would've been great but it was a shared codebase among many teams and one of the hard rules was no access to stuff like document :(

We also couldn't console.log in this codebase, it was very ideologically pure but it took ages to make any changes

Sounds to me more insane than pure

It's not about Vue (or React for that matter). Incompetent developers will take whatever tools they have at their disposal and turn a few hours project into an unmaintainable monstrosity.

True, but in my experience a lot of younger developers have been trained to think in frameworks all the way, with the result of growing a dangerous fondness for unnecessary complexity. To them, I feel, turning something easy into an opaque mess that the client is of course too dumb too appreciate, let alone understand, is a sign of quality and somehow a matter of pride. For the aforementioned project, that I could have built up in three days with HTML + CSS + some js sprinkled on top for effects, it took them a month and a half, and then he bailed on minor Cosmetic changes because “the allotted time was over”. The client was literally fooled into spending more for this bullshit.

It's a syndrome of modern web dev, killing mosquitoes with bazookas