I spent 7 years fighting Firestore's worst...

If you've shipped anything beyond a todo app with Firestore, you know the feeling. You start a project and everything is fast, flexible, magical. Six months later you're staring at a security rules file that's 400 lines of unmaintainable custom syntax, your production database has three different shapes of "user" documents, and every new collection means writing the same converter boilerplate all over again. I've been building with Firestore for over seven years. I love it — the real-time sync,