Exactly. But DRY does not give you fast github stars nor makes your work sound significantly interesting (I used a perfectly fine but boring 15 year old lib ver

Exactly. But DRY does not give you fast github stars nor makes your work sound significantly interesting (I used a perfectly fine but boring 15 year old lib versus I rolled my own). To the Mongo point; investors often want to hear you rolled your own as well. So it will not change soon.