Well, if your program domain requires X level of essential complexity, you will have to achieve that somehow. You can either let it live in someone else's code,

Well, if your program domain requires X level of essential complexity, you will have to achieve that somehow. You can either let it live in someone else's code, that's already written and battle tested, or you can rewrite it yourself, which is time consuming and the results might be subpar. There is no free lunch.