[auvi]

TL;DR from the post: """ My take-home for you, the persistent reader who has read all my ramblings in this post...

Don’t build your app on top of a pile of crap in-house framework. """

[kcmarshall]

Which suggests that take-home #0 should be: Don't build a pile of crap in-house framework.

Sniffing that out before too late is the tricky part...