I upvoted your comment and the GP's, as you both make good points. It does not have to be one or the other, though. The obvious solution to have the best of bo

I upvoted your comment and the GP's, as you both make good points. It does not have to be one or the other, though. The obvious solution to have the best of both camps is to find an open source library with a (mostly) sane architecture and either support it actively or fork it (depending on the bullshit-to-effective ratio in the code and user base). If you end up forking it, you may end up outcompeting the original if you band together with like minded devs/users from the previous incarnation... instead of keeping it behind your org's firewall.