[kkfx]

To me the points are far simpler:

- building a personal tool means not being tied to someone else future, so a good thing, but...

- ...building in modern crapware model it's purposely hard to makes people unable to profit from computing.

In classical systems where the OS and all the rest was a single application, with user programming concept where anything is just a function, live code, developing and integrating personally was easy. In a divide et impera modern model of base system, userland, apps, even worse containers and so on ANYTHING not already made is hard and integration is substantially impossible.

So? Well, IF we can do something at home/with FLOSS that's the way to go, if not we know we have an armed bomb on our genitals. Not nice, but not other options possible so far.