Love this take. In the bio-imaging space, Napari is a great example of this. Wonderfully solid base, but extremely extensible since its just python all the way down.

There's something wonderful about having my coworker walk up with an issue, and being able to bang out a Napari plugin that solves their exact problem before lunch.

My order of 'tool escalation' usually goes: - Can I solve their problem from napari's inline terminal? - Can I solve it with a one-off script? - Can I solve it with a one-off script that creates a one-off plugin interface? - Should I add the plugin to our company-wide repo since this problem seems to occur a lot?