@bouncepaw I couldn't relate to it at all, but it seemed like you might 😄

I think the lesson from the author's experience is not that building your own wiki engine is a waste. The lesson is that it's counterproductive to build infrastructure far in advance of need.

Search is easy at any sort of personal scale. I generate ~1MB/yr of plain text, and grep works just fine over 20 such years. If some organization seems onerous, I stop organizing. But I keep writing.

Nice list of use cases, though.