I agree with you. Reinventing wheels is good, ignoring any kind of domain knowledge/expertise is not. If you’re running into problems that someone with a year

I agree with you. Reinventing wheels is good, ignoring any kind of domain knowledge/expertise is not. If you’re running into problems that someone with a year or less experience in the area can point out and you don’t have good reason to do different then that’s incompetence not ingenuity.