From my limited time using pure Pi, I found quite a few of the plugins lacking and had no desire to upgrade/fix and maintain them myself. I know others feel differently though.
I like the idea of keep Pi minimal but having “official”, high quality optional plugins to make it more usable.
I just wish it had a way for me to downlimit tool access (I love midsized local models, and I'd love to enable only 30% of the power for some usecases).
When do you get it to make you the thing versus choosing to vendor something out like back in the day?
To your question: it’s the difference between one person and an agent working on something vs an experienced dev and the entire community.
Time and tokens too of course.
And I see that tonight pi has had their regular devs ship (https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/tags) new releases with modified thinking levels for GPT-5.6 while roboomp is discussing this back and forth with some contributors in oh-my-pi's repo.