I think this can be compared to the standard trade off of doing things the right way or the quick way, which is not necessarily wrong but can blow up spectacula

I think this can be compared to the standard trade off of doing things the right way or the quick way, which is not necessarily wrong but can blow up spectacularly. Unfortunately, sometimes the work to do things the right way is an infinite pit of edge cases and domain knowledge. You can use libraries to paper over this trade off but then you have other trade offs like needing to worry about bugs you have no control over. In the end, if you don’t feel at least a little bad about the software you’ve written or how long it took to write it, you are probably doing something wrong