I completely agree. For each &#x27;oh look I found a plugin&#x2F;library that does that&#x27; you can end up with<p>+ something what you need-ish, PLUS crap you don&#x27;t
+ a layer of glue code to your codebase that will be as hard or harder to maintain.
+ your famously fantastic imported code will have it&#x27;s bugs, that will be hard to find (as it&#x27;s not owned)
+ nobody will &#x27;know&#x2F;own&#x27; it, so any tweaks will be duct taped.
+ it will diverge upstream, will at some point your version become fallow, and you end up with &#x27;code sclerosis&#x27;: you can no longer extract the old and get a new, fresh version.<p>So yes, all that time and headache you will spend for your &#x27;quick win&#x27; could have been spent solving the problem for YOUR use case by paying the price upfront and writing the code.<p>I&#x27;ve seen that so many times it&#x27;s not even funny. There is also the manager&#x27;s version of that, with the world famous &quot;I found that library online, does JUST what we need and only costs $5k, and we even get SUPPORT!11!!&quot;