It's hard to tell what benefit there actually is from this kind of thing. There's definitely great new tools developed all the time, but most of them seem to

It's hard to tell what benefit there actually is from this kind of thing. There's definitely great new tools developed all the time, but most of them seem to be planned megaprojects. I've never seen a custom build system or VCS or personal/project specific tooling I'd want to use. Seems like most of it happens just cause devs enjoy it. Making your own clamps seems very much the same. The other reason is there's a real cult of assuming that minimal is always best, and devs resent using any tool that has more features than they absolutely need. They also resent any more opinionated structure than they need, even if it makes things safer and easier, because they seem to really enjoy blank canvas creativity.