I've followed a similar trajectory over the years, but I'm currently back to minimalism. Perhaps the pendulum will swing again. In any case I'm not as extreme a

I've followed a similar trajectory over the years, but I'm currently back to minimalism. Perhaps the pendulum will swing again. In any case I'm not as extreme about NIH as I used to be. I try to make the decision for pragmatic reasons, not emotional ones. What pushed me back was the current JavaScript landscape, with endless breaking changes to the major UI frameworks and constant security vulnerabilities being reported in our code bases by GitHub (they're even doing auto pull requests now). In my experience, updating any decently sized web app project is a huge pain, and very time consuming. Everything is constantly moving. Libraries, frameworks, build tools, node, etc etc. These are all dependencies.