I think a related thing people say (that makes me cringe) is that xyz is "just a...

carc on Oct 3, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why's that company so big? I could do that in a we...

I think a related thing people say (that makes me cringe) is that xyz is "just a CRUD app", quite dismissively. You could argue that the vast majority of applications are "just CRUD apps"! Once you get up to a certain scale, even "basic CRUD apps" are complicated.