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I've recently been having some success with a fail-fast version of this. Quick example: I wanted a utility component library for React, and none of the ones I looked at seemed promising. So I built my own, focusing exclusively on the consumer API and seeing what was possible. I pretty quickly ruled that my dream API wasn't possible, but I figured out why and what trade offs were going into it. Then I want back to the available libraries with a much better understanding of the underlying problems, and identified one that most closely resembled what I thought was precisely what I wanted. This approach has worked for several of the dependencies I've adopted lately and I have found that I now spend a lot less time fighting with my dependencies because I'm trying to pigeonhole them into a place where they can't fit.