Oatmeal Agitante

It's worth becoming quick to trial products and services to see if they're worth their cost.

The greater the churn, the more you'll learn.

I don't entirely agree with your conclusion but I do feel insecure about always preferring to roll my own

The realisation I've had was that I was making do with broken solutions because I hadn't fully explored what was possible.

If you try things and drop them often you will find optimal cost/benefit ratio eventually.

yeah I'm largely reacting to the fact that lots of available "solutions" are peddled ideologies that require big overhauls

but it's clear there's some middle ground

Actually in this case I'm talking about solutions as-in products/services that you might buy as opposed to 'ideologies'.