[spinningD20]

That tracks well (both the quotes and your thoughts).

One example that comes to mind where I want to roll my own thing (and am in the process of doing so) is replacing our ci/cd usage of jenkins that is solely for running qa automation tests against PR's on github. Jenkins does way way more than we need. We just need github PR interaction/webhook, secure credentials management, and spawning ecs tasks on aws...

Every time I force myself to update our jenkins instance, I buckle up because there is probably some random plugin, or jenkins agent thing, or ... SOMETHING that will break and require me to spend time tracking down what broke and why. 100% surface area for issues, whilst we use <5% of what Jenkins actually provides.