My experience is similar. I seem to stumble upon two different types of libraries: - One that is so specifically designed to fix the authors' original problem.

My experience is similar. I seem to stumble upon two different types of libraries: - One that is so specifically designed to fix the authors' original problem. It is implemented in such a way that it doesn't cover a lot of use cases. - One that is actually designed to be a general purpose library and to be used everywhere; but because of this there is a lot of feature creep and very complicated interfaces.