Now you need to pay someone to implement a solution for automatically packaging and distributing your plugins. You have extra complexity on every project to man

Now you need to pay someone to implement a solution for automatically packaging and distributing your plugins. You have extra complexity on every project to manage pulling dependencies. Someone needs to maintain all those packages and the infrastructure to serve them. I'm doing this right now for my company. Starting from zero automation it's taken probably half my time these last few months. Every project needs individual care. Some projects require major refactors to use the new libraries instead of their own implementation. I have to secure our releases so we don't leak credentials, I have to secure the GitLab server, we have a half dozen new accounts and keys to keep track of forever. That kind of modularity really isn't free at all, in any sense.