What I find annoying, is people making fun of folks that choose to “roll their own.”

The typical argument that I see, is homemade encryption, which is quite valid.

However, encryption is just a tiny corner of the surface.

Most folks don’t want to haul in 1MB of junk, just so they can animate a transition.

Well, I guess I should qualify that: Most normal folks wouldn't want to do that, but, apparently, it's de rigueur for today's coders.