Still peeking with one eye at what's happening on the internet. And there comrade Grishka on Reddit made quite a strong butthurt.
Wrote a clone of the well-known pokedex from skydoves, but without all this overengineering in the form of Google recommendations and Jetpacks. And, surprise surprise, it started working better, less code and the build weighs 20 times less.
All this, of course, with big caveats. But I'm enjoying the idea itself. The community is having a pattern break and total rejection.
I closely read Mastodon code about a year ago when I wanted to write my own client. You can't take away from the author that there's a lot of logic in his actions and it's quite consistent and formed. But it's all so different from how other people do things that it's quite difficult for the average person to comprehend.