Shoehorning the open source forge into the same web application where corporate software engineering takes place was a historic mistake. It would be good to cut these two very different things loose from each other and explore what makes sense for each use case.

These look intimidating the first time you see them, but they are boilerplate.

I can’t agree more with this. Programming shouldn’t be that complicated. Type systems should not become too complicated or they get in the way.