If you like tinkering, you can certainly do so, but there's a maintenance cost to customizations, and if you're not willing to shoulder them, then you should go

If you like tinkering, you can certainly do so, but there's a maintenance cost to customizations, and if you're not willing to shoulder them, then you should go with something closer to the stock install where the distribution will generally have sorted out things for you. Perhaps this is the explanation you're looking for? Actually, I think, and this is perhaps somewhat surprising, that many software developers don't pay terrible much attention to future maintenance costs.