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IME having to learn a fancy framework to edit a couple of things on an open source app that was mostly what we needed hurt a lot more than it would have to make something very KISS with something like Flask as a proof of concept.
Whether choosing to implement your own thing from scratch should be a last resort, or that it necessarily requires tremendous breath of experience, really depends on the circumstance, as you described. In many circumstances you don't have to be a genius to know NIH is probably the sanest option.
Extreme metal rooted from Discharge. Sounds close enough anyway. Crossover thrash isn't metal because it has punk on it, too?
Regardless, this is just pedantry.
It's way too hard to find paid work. If I could earn minimum wage by coding simple, small systems, I would be so happy.