If I understand what you're saying, this is to be expected from any mature ecosystem: The basic things have been solved by libraries that everyone generally pr

If I understand what you're saying, this is to be expected from any mature ecosystem: The basic things have been solved by libraries that everyone generally prefers to use. Wanna write a JSON parser? You can, but there's a library for it. And so on. For the purpose of learning the basics, you can either disregard the library, or you can write an app that uses a bunch of libraries.