It's a good point - and part of the reason I'm asking this is I don't know the answer 100%. Some of it is gut feeling. I guess part of the problem is that by ou

It's a good point - and part of the reason I'm asking this is I don't know the answer 100%. Some of it is gut feeling. I guess part of the problem is that by outsourcing this layer of work you actually fail to develop internal competency to do it yourself. Then when later on you find your requirements expand beyond what can be done, you're now functionally incapable of doing it, and you start being constrained by that. I've been in companies that end up paying ridiculous amounts for consultants to do utterly trivial things to systems just because they've been bred to be functionally dependent on systems they don't understand / can't control. That isn't this, but I feel like it's a step towards it.