Sorry Ursula I was actually replying to et voilà although having read your excellent and most moderate response it could be to you as well.

We are mostly in agreement, even with:

they are simply alternative actions the user can take, short of rolling up our sleeves and wading into C++ to fix a passing need.

I assume you wouldn't hesitate to found your own steelworks and petrochemical plant whenever your car won't get out of the driveway or stalls twenty times on the way down to the shops.

Personally I don't think I'm up to doing that as well as my day job.

btw I make no claim to being a p2p guru, and knowing a few networking experts, they like to keep it that way (whilst plumbing me for all of my expertise they can extract).