[quickthrower2]

All of this is why you get paid. The alchemist turning the free stuff into stuff worth dollars! And bridging the impedance mismatch therewith.

Other options are changing libraries, changing the “requirements” or in a recent case in my company submitting a fix and waiting the months for the review and finally getting fixed for everyone. And yes it is a lot of work to do that in a complex OSS project.

If you don’t like this I recommend architecting to avoid it. Avoid front end libraries and use .NET for the back end which gives you fully featured system without needing as much FOSS reliance then pay M$ for top tier support.