Fundementally this is the benefit of Linux. Google provides a nice fortune 500 solution to everything, but you could layer up and delete most of Google's packages.
If you don't want products and services from Microsoft, Walmart and McDonald's, all 3 companies who don't seem to advertise much- do you find yourself buying products from big advertisers?
I don't find these companies low quality, so I'm wondering what would make you avoid them.
Ah yes, the confident programmer that would DIY everything.
I feel like underestimating Excel is a classic example how an expert can have holes in their thinking.
With VBA, Excel becomes a ton more useful, adding programming. Excel is merely a visual database you can share with coworkers and encapsulate in a single file.
There is a time and place for everything. Excel is very useful for workplace data sharing and manipulation.
Singled me out because I liked math and she was an English and Spanish teacher.
I had never gotten a C before, but that teacher in a panic admitted that "I wasn't good at her class like I am at math". In reality she was targeting me for some reason and giving me minimal participation credit despite participation.
By the end of the class, enough students complained she stopped teaching Spanish 1. And she still teaches to this day 11years later.
Where does that leave Amazon? I don't buy anything anymore. Digikey and Walmart online are my prime online stores