@calutron Could be, a lot of the DIY software culture relies on a monoculture of frameworks, so it makes for software that very much looks and fells like commercial equivalents.

But it feels like that's by design, it's like a lot of things, keeping people scared and ignorant benefits markets.

It's like that for a lot of things these days, don't learn plumbing, you're going to kill yourself and flood your house and your won't be insured! Software's the same.