Another good thing about re-implementing, often these solutions are like 700 pound gorillas, built fast and trying to move trains not place flowerpots.
Usually the 700 pound gorilla can be gutted, and the danger of not gutting it is that everyone starts to think that having 700 pound gorillas in your backyard is a "normal" part of "modern" living (dystopia living, actually).
Which is how we arrive here: https://spectrum.ieee.org/cloud-computings-coming-energy-cri...
Where arguably the tech industry is fast becoming one of the most wasteful, hurtful things to this planet.
Most my musician and composer friends were forced to use it because it was the cheapest way to share a few hundred gigabytes of instrument samplers with remote contract workers.
They would reserve a week to deal with botched dropbox client upload/downloads. A freaking week. I convinced a few to just pay postage on a external HDD and bite the bullet if they got damaged. They never looked back.
This feels rather reductive