Yeah, I've been frustrated so many times over my career when people get fixated over the sticker price of some SaaS/PaaS and instead insist on wasting rediculou

Yeah, I've been frustrated so many times over my career when people get fixated over the sticker price of some SaaS/PaaS and instead insist on wasting rediculous hours building something or gaffa-taping some open-source solution together that then has to be maintained. I've been in meetings where the combinded cost of the time taken to discuss if we should use a thing was more than the cost of the thing. Utterly infuriating. Even when I worked for an agency there seemed to be an automatic discounting of the cost of people's time vs spending actual cash (and cashflow wasn't an issue). I appreciate that there is often good reasons to DIY, but when there are not I will always favour something off-the shelf unless it is significantly more expensive.