As an example, I'm developing an IDE from the ground up. The current conventional approach would be to fork VSCode, a bloated, slow, over-engineered, ultra-complex Electron app reliant on Microsoft's standards.
Alternatively, I can code it artisanally, which will likely result in something worse in many ways and break in unexpected ways. But for my specific use case, it provides a much better user experience than taking the assembly-line approach to software development. The chances of this project failing are much higher using this customized approach than if I used the assembly-line method, but it doesn't matter to me - coding it this way is already so much more fun.
