Pitfalls
Even when you find and repurpose someone else’s solution, building a bridge is a lot of work. If you have to build your own solution, it’s an order of magnitude more work. It can be daunting when you consider that it doesn’t lead you to your desired destination but merely an intermediate stop along the way. But that intermediate step is almost always better than the status quo.
However, this does lead to the possibility that the bridge gets accepted, and you never move past it. This isn’t always a bad thing. You just have to be flexible enough to accept that. However, it means that the temporary solution you developed now has to be maintained as its own entity going forward. If you aren’t prepared for it, it’s annoying when it happens, ...
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