Maybe I'm too corporate-pilled, but if the 'taped up heuristics' provide noticeably better performance for real-world problems, then I don't really care that th

Maybe I'm too corporate-pilled, but if the 'taped up heuristics' provide noticeably better performance for real-world problems, then I don't really care that there is a facade layer around the model itself. In fact, I would pay for that difference in intentional design/optimization if one vendor does it much better than another for my use case.