There was an article a few years ago that expressed this sentiment quite eloquently:
> “The merchants of complexity will try to convince you that you can’t do anything yourself these days,” wrote David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH), the creator of Ruby on Rails. “You can’t do auth, you can’t do scale, you can’t run a database, you can’t connect a computer to the internet. You’re a helpless peon who should just buy their wares. No. Reject.” [1]
DHH also did a very inspiring talk about mastery and why he loved the Ruby language in the "DHH is right about everything" [2] video.
> “The merchants of complexity will try to convince you that you can’t do anything yourself these days,” wrote David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH), the creator of Ruby on Rails. “You can’t do auth, you can’t do scale, you can’t run a database, you can’t connect a computer to the internet. You’re a helpless peon who should just buy their wares. No. Reject.” [1]
DHH also did a very inspiring talk about mastery and why he loved the Ruby language in the "DHH is right about everything" [2] video.
[1] https://thenewstack.io/developers-rail-against-javascript-me...
[2] https://youtu.be/mTa2d3OLXhg?is=nDdRHnPqHc2uiK8x