Computer vision was the formative school for many autodidacts. Although I acquired substantial knowledge from articles translated via Power Translator and Babylon (whose outputs closely mirror those of any 2-million-parameter SLM), it was OpenCV that made concepts like convolutions, softmax, minmax, and others finally click for me. I have consistently viewed OpenCV as an intrinsically open, educational, and adaptable library. Any developer can dissect its codebase to extract a specific filter or algorithmic implementation and tailor it to their requirements. It is certainly not cruising at the velocity of trillion-dollar capital. But it holds its altitude. And it will always be there.