https://smspillaz.wordpress.com/2017/04/06/vale-unity/amp

There's a lesson here. If you find yourself in a position where you have to re-invent all the things underneath your thing then you're probably doing it wrong. It's better to go with the community than against it, and Shuttleworth said something like that in his blog post. The collective work of the development community not only represents a vast amount of dev-hours but also accumulated wisdom of problems encountered and overcome.