That's $800 for a family of 4. With the median household income at under $80,000, it's ridiculous to think the average person can afford to spend that much just to skip a line a couple times a year.
But a family of 4 is not the value proposition here. They are explicitly targeting frequent flyers that stand in the queue so often that the time saves add up.
If you're only traveling once a year, you can handle a 45 minute wait twice (although yes, it still sucks). If you're traveling once a week, it's a completely different ballpark.
> it's ridiculous to think the average person can afford to spend that much just to skip a line a couple times a year.
Well, sure, it's ridiculous to pay that much if you only travel a couple times a year. It's like how paying $700/year for airline lounge access is ridiculous if you only travel a couple times a year.
But $800 for a family of 4 is much closer to the average person than, say, using a private jet to skip security lines.
Unfortunately, you don't always know if on-call will be involved until you start at the job. Often many companies don't even hire you with a particular role in mind, instead you are matched to a team after you're signed on. (Especially for new grads). And sometimes on-call is introduced in an existing role, it can be difficult to refuse, especially for people in more junior roles.
But definitely ask about on-call when interviewing, in case they say they have it you can bail out before you sign.
I ask about it repeatedly to all interviewers to the point that some companies disqualify me. Call it a survivorship bias in reverse. It doesn't always work, amazingly, but it always sends a strong signal.
Svelte seems to be set on having a server side build process for the front end. That is an even bigger no-go for me.
The complexity of React and the OPs framework at least be contained in the frontend. With a server side build step, the complexity of the frontend spoils over to the backend.
That sounds a bit excessive. If your project is going through a lot of changes and refactoring, the multiple architecture.md files will be hard to keep up-to-date