I agree that it's niche but also typical of us programmers to declare "my way is the only way" even when we're into a niche thing. Look at the number of people

I agree that it's niche but also typical of us programmers to declare "my way is the only way" even when we're into a niche thing. Look at the number of people who setup home movie streaming servers vs pay for Netflix, for example. To the platform victor go the spoils. I've had the greatest leaps recently with Cursor, which not only is a terrific RAG application but integrates several models. Does anyone want to write and maintain that who is not in that business? No. Hence, platforms.