But the point of the article is that this isn't sustainable. If the person who wrote it leaves, or if they need to do a similar task later, or another lab is do

But the point of the article is that this isn't sustainable. If the person who wrote it leaves, or if they need to do a similar task later, or another lab is doing similar work, all the effort will be repeated. It would make a lot more sense for the community to invest in more open source tools that generalize to cover more research domains.