I wasn't insinuating that everyone should make their own form handler; I was just agreeing that formspree is pretty good for what it is, and I haven't really felt the need to utilize another service (or reinvent the service and shove it to HN).

I thought programmers -- especially when doing side-projects like this -- liked creating new things, thinking about newer ways of solving problems, or solving new problems.

I half-jokingly / half-seriously blame TodoMVC for a lot of this stuff; I don't really think a form-to-email redirector is the next TodoMVC-- but I would suggest that newish devs' first experiences are cookie-cutter assignments / tutorials for inventing the same damn thing over and over again.

I haven't seen a person solving a "new" or "interesting" problem at my local hackerspace in over a year; they're still arguing about what the best way to make a Todo app is.