On the flip side there are many engineers who are so afraid to build anything that seems even a little bit difficult you end up with a million dependencies for things that could have been 100 lines of code.

A common thing to hear in frontend these days is “you’re just rebuilding X” “you mean you want to rebuild X” where X is some trivial flavor of the month library.

All of the famous tools, databases and frameworks you see today was built by someone who said they can do it better and then they built a community around it.