The goal of Stripe is to make things simple. I shouldn’t have to implement a webhook to discover that none of my invoices are actually being paid. I’d expect a notification email to be sent to the account until that is explicitly turned off.
If you're writing software, and you develop a new feature without testing the failure path, then I don't think it's possible to make any safe assumptions about what failure should or shouldn't do.
I agree with you on general basis, but in this case it seems that Stripe provides a dashboard containing key data. It's not unreasonable to expect that critical payment failures would be displayed as well.
It's always a risk to make assumptions, but I don't think this specific assumption was unreasonable.
Yeah, I saw your other comment and feel you nailed it.
Stripe needs to offer solutions 100x better than what we build, 10x as fast. That was the premise of the original product, now the “easy stuff” is glossed.
