I prefer simple tools for just this reason. I never used Meteor (for fear of what you describe), but I’ve used plenty of 3rd party libs / tools that I was told “do 90% of what we need; just wrap it and do the remaining 10%”. The 90% was usually the easy part, but often had flaws that were a nuisance to (or impossible) work around. Or they’d stop getting maintained and decay over the years.
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I prefer simple tools for just this reason. I never used Meteor (for fear of what you describe), but I’ve used plenty of 3rd party libs / tools that I was told “do 90% of what we need; just wrap it and do the remaining 10%”. The 90% was usually the easy part, but often had flaws that were a nuisance to (or impossible) work around. Or they’d stop getting maintained and decay over the years.