[BobbyTables2]

This writing mirrors my thoughts exactly.

Have seen too many cases where 10-20 lines of code avoided the need to pull in an external library with multiple dependencies.

Ironically, I also find for anything not extremely mainstream, external libraries tend to appear more complete/functional than they actually are. Often find I end up having to fork and/or rewrite them for my use case.

Sure, some say everything should be fixed with PRs. But my technical goals and timeline constrains don’t necessarily align with the maintainer’s. So fork/rewrite it is!!