If you started a fresh project today, what's one tool you'd REFUSE to use?

A look at the technologies we've moved on from and why.

The Hype vs. The Headache
We spend so much time talking about the "New Shiny Stack," but we rarely talk about the tools that burned us. Whether it was a library with terrible documentation or a framework that felt like "magic" until it broke, we all have that one tech we've blacklisted.

My Take
=> For me, it's any library that tries to "hide" the underlying logic too much. I’d rather write 10 extra lines of code than spend 2 hours debugging a "black box" abstraction.

Your Turn
=> What tool or framework is officially "dead" to you?
=> What was the "last straw" that made you switch?