[scarecrowbob]

Yeah, that's a legitimate point of view.

I've seen enough cases where folks have paid to "get around" some problem and it's ended very poorly, often require extensive work that could have been don correctly the first time with some bespoke code instead of many layers of kludges.

Could just be a problem with low-rent software dev in general, but the plugin ecosystem doesn more harm than good in that area, at least IME.