And this is true in many sub-domains as well.

Even things like CSS frameworks.

If you’re doing something trivial, or solving a couple of specific use cases, then a framework full of CSS classes that give you Twitter-looking cards or a no code solution that helps you send an email every time a user clicks a “subscribe” button IS helpful.

But the problem is, once you’ve used the tool for that initial problem, you’re stuck with it. And inevitably, if your thing is successful at all, you will outgrow that tool quickly and need to start making bespoke things to keep up.

I say this not out of gate keeping either - I say this as an overworked full stack software developer who would LOVE to be able to provide a CSS framework or a visual editor to my co-workers and have them produce long term solutions.

But as soon as they find some tool and ask me to help adopt it, it works for them for a couple use cases, and then guess who’s stuck trying to make it work with all the fancy new things we need that then requires extending the tool or working around it entirely?