Personally, I'm big fan of those pipes mentioned. And the tooling that can be created around those _simple_ "primitives". Comparison to Google drive is obscure, in a way that it compares one gigantic piece of software into these small and simple.

Bottom line is probably true, but if you are an open-source maintainer mentioned, and you have only so few hours to spend, you just cannot create those gigantic softwares either. You need to choose from the cards on your hand.