Makes me wonder what problems they faced with a Client/Server architecture.

Scope creep maybe? Supporting lots of platforms can be very time consuming.

I use Hugo for static site generation and it makes the RSS stuff for me.

Yeah, I had a similar case with some authentication middleware I used that was part of a library.

It would always throw an exception when a user wasn’t authenticated instead of just giving me some flag I could check.

Wouldn’t have done it that way, but it was okay for an API controller.

Meme is funny, but that exception used as flow control hurts.