Stripe will soon run out of names for their ever growing levels of abstractions.

I loved Stripe from the inception until about a year or two ago when their developers discovered the joy of AI. Now I dread every new Stripe SDK update, because it means more mental tax to me, more work for exactly zero value - all for the satisfaction of their architects.

It looks developer-friendly in the beginning (and it is), but once you cave in to the lure, you'll be hit with a flow of SDK updates with incredible type gymnastics.

You'll be processing events from totally different yet slightly overlapping entity types for building a simple subscription service and having to synthetically handle 12 month billing. The docs won't adequately explain which events should trigger which product decisions, and there is no guidance on which events and states are authoritative or take precedence.

Stripe is no longer the correct shape for small startups. They are wonderful for big business, but startups need something smaller to go faster. Your Stripe integration will slow you down.

Stripe APIs being simple and easy is a meme from the 2010s. It isn't anymore.

They're great for big business at scale, but they lost how to cater to startups.