[jonoc]

Not sure I agree with this due to the fact that all projects are different and such their tooling requirements will be different. I don't think it's fair to just apply a blanket rule of 'use fewer tools' - this tends to end up with people writing their own implementation of existing tools which then turns in to tech debt so it's kind of a void argument.

[tomc1985]

I think this argument is more about utilizing minimalism in software design than always writing-it-yourself. IMHO many of us have seem to favor a form of feature maximalism, and perhaps we should be tempering our ambitions design-wise. Too much software has far too large a surface area.