Often it's political, but political friction can feed into technical friction if there are also a half dozen different half wrappers around half-baked HTTP libr

Often it's political, but political friction can feed into technical friction if there are also a half dozen different half wrappers around half-baked HTTP libraries. Also, if someone has included OpenTracing as a shadow library in a company-wide library (JVM territory), but you want it as a top-level dependency, you have to write translators.