My best bit of advice for any programmer at any level: "Don't make stuff more complicated than it has to be!"
Software is complicated. Large, feature rich software is even more complicated. That's hard enough to manage as it is. The last thing you want to do is to throw a million of abstraction layers, frameworks, libraries, precompilers, transpilers, build steps, validation hooks, style checkers etc. into the mix. Each of them makes your project more complex by a certain factor. And not only do they add up - they multiply!
Now, that doesn't mean that you need to built everything bare bones without the help of any third party software - just make sensible choices. Unfortunately, developers are way too prone to add another shiny thing to the mix.
So here's how you decide if you really need something:
At first: You don't - continue as is.
Then: If the problem persists and the suggested solution keeps coming up, still refuse, but investigate the solution.
At last: If the problem persists, the solution seems well suited to address it and it keeps coming up - accept that you have the problem and adopt the solution.
Software is complicated. Large, feature rich software is even more complicated. That's hard enough to manage as it is. The last thing you want to do is to throw a million of abstraction layers, frameworks, libraries, precompilers, transpilers, build steps, validation hooks, style checkers etc. into the mix. Each of them makes your project more complex by a certain factor. And not only do they add up - they multiply!
Now, that doesn't mean that you need to built everything bare bones without the help of any third party software - just make sensible choices. Unfortunately, developers are way too prone to add another shiny thing to the mix.
So here's how you decide if you really need something:
At first: You don't - continue as is.
Then: If the problem persists and the suggested solution keeps coming up, still refuse, but investigate the solution.
At last: If the problem persists, the solution seems well suited to address it and it keeps coming up - accept that you have the problem and adopt the solution.