I've come to accept that there are certain pieces of imagined software that I could not reasonably expect to write myself, regardless of the amount of time give

I've come to accept that there are certain pieces of imagined software that I could not reasonably expect to write myself, regardless of the amount of time given or my own meager brainpower. As the difficulty of writing a piece of software (or coordinating the components thereof) increases, the tradeoff invariably tips back toward trying to make somebody else's software work.