> if you try and do things it doesn’t like, you’re going to have a bad time.

Also that there's the 'Esri' way of doing things, and the 'platform independent' (more-or-less) way of doing things which do not play well with 'Esri-isms'.

Esri does have some really nice enterprise components though; I haven't yet found a remotely user-friendly open-source equivalent to Workflow Manager Server or Data Interop., or an as-polished ArcGIS Portal yet, though I constantly keep a look out.

QField is getting better and better, too. I wish I knew C++ well enough to help develop it further.