[twblalock]

> Fast forward three to five years and everyone regretted the NIH approach. Those open or closed source solutions had matured and easily surpassed the home grown feature set, which still required a team of engineers to invest in.

This is the root of the problem: a small team generally can't keep up with an open source project over time.

The NIH approach works well at larger companies who can dedicate a lot of engineers to working on in-house infrastructure projects full time. At smaller companies it is a distraction from building the core product.