There are so many options these days, and evaluation often requires all the work of using the package only to find out that it's incompatible or broken or unusable for some other reason. So it's often more efficient to write your own version anyway. At least then you'll know the jerk who made it.
I agree, and posts like this [1] leave me floored. How does anyone have time to evaluate all of these individual components. My CS education taught me to build components for myself but not to necessarily do a complete evaluation of 3rd party components in a short time. " We use Heroku for hosting, and run automated tests on CircleCI. Slack bots report what’s being deployed. There are a lot of external services we re…
Yeah, I find that kind of intimidating too. But don't forget that this is an entire company's worth of infrastructure that they're calling out. Also some of those in the middle of your quote are like saying "and we use Comcast for our ISP, and Microsoft Office 365 to create our documents, Google Drive to manage them, and Atom for editing source code..."