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Came to say something similar; I see it with library choices a lot as well; poor library choices ~= sloppy programming. I've had a lot of issues in the the past with 'conventional wisdom' lib choices that result in a lot of re-work as predictable issues with those choices arise.

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Sometimes, choosing to use a library in the first place may also implicitly increase technical debt (in having to maintain this dependency, and even more so if this library shares dependencies with other dependencies that you have).

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