From my experience, it's all a matter of balance between the time needed to set up and maintain your system vs the burden to coerce someone else's system to beh

From my experience, it's all a matter of balance between the time needed to set up and maintain your system vs the burden to coerce someone else's system to behave† the way you want. † behavior covers both technical (features, compatibility...) and ideological (privacy, openness...) areas.