[yakshaving_jgt]

You don’t think this learned helplessness is depressing?

Whether or not a team decides to own some portion of code is a complex topic. Sometimes it makes sense to leverage something external, and sometimes it makes sense to write it yourself.

In my business, we had a [ostensibly senior] guy insist we use an external technology because it would be too hard for us to own that piece ourselves, despite it being a core part of the product. Technical due diligence on the external technology showed that it didn’t actually work as advertised. Six figure price tag and apparently millions invested for a thing that doesn’t work (and “doesn’t work” in this case meant “corrupted financial data”).

Whether or not a team owns some technology is highly context dependent, and your comment comes across as reductive.