You're right. I think my biggest problem is that I always assume these crazy OSS projects were written because the author has always been this programming genius, when in reality they were just following their interests. For example, I caught myself with the proxy thinking about production scale. Who cares about production?? I just need to get going and build a single-threaded proxy that gets the job done. No need to worry about complexity, it's just for me.

Hard to remember that at times though.