I feel like this would reimplement a lot of the machinery that's built-in the job queue (atomic state locking to take ownership of the job, with deadlocking pre

I feel like this would reimplement a lot of the machinery that's built-in the job queue (atomic state locking to take ownership of the job, with deadlocking prevention mechanism to make sure a killed process doesn't keep that job locked, and timeouts). At this point, why not throw the whole job queue away and simply use that system ?