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I assume the typical dev sentiment is that I would rather spend/waste/invest 2 hours of my time rather than spend/waste/invest 1 hour trying to read other peoples code and documentation. Devs are fidgity bunch. And as the great filmmaker Satyajit Ray said, "The only solutions that are ever worth anything are the solutions that people find themselves."

Based on the quote above boilerplates are for people who are more founder-y than dev-y. Some see codebase as solution, some see code as solution.