I think your analogy is flawed because it seems like you're essentially taking an extreme on the opposite end from what you are sarcastically mocking. I wouldn

I think your analogy is flawed because it seems like you're essentially taking an extreme on the opposite end from what you are sarcastically mocking. I wouldn't call myself "old school," "hard core" or anything like it, but I just don't see what's so difficult about--or wrong with--replacing any library with "ad hoc" code that accomplishes a small subset of the library's functionality if the majority of the library's purpose is to provide that small subset. "Small", of course, is relative and context dependent.