We Build Our Own Stuff Boy!

You know that special breed of PC manufacturer who insists on building everything from scratch? No frameworks, no libraries, no templates – just raw, artisanal code. Then one day they inherit a legacy codebase or join a new company and discover their entire "custom-built empire" is actually sitting on top of someone else's foundation. The absolute horror of realizing you've been living a lie.

It's like spending years bragging about your handcrafted furniture only to find out your house was a modular home all along. The demolition crew (reality check) arrives fast and hard. Nothing humbles a "I don't need npm packages" developer quite like discovering their entire architecture is just a thin wrapper around Bootstrap and jQuery.