If you can't read it, you don't own it — you're a hostage

If you can't read it, you don't own it — you're a hostage
Hot take: buying your filtering stack instead of being able to build it means the day it breaks, you're not an operator, you're a support ticket.
Everyone weighs build-vs-buy on time and money. The real axis is dependency. The buyers get to market faster and then sit helpless every time the platform shifts and the vendor is "working on an update." The builders move slower and eat the maintenance tax, but they adapt in hours, not release cycles.
In a game defined by how fast the other side changes the rules, the slow expensive in-house build is the one that survives the pivot.
Agree? Fight me in the comments.