@p > (I love you all but please have some goddamn pride as engineers and study the things you have to implement.)

I don't know how time management goes with open source projects, but at least at work I can definitely say that this is an issue of just not getting enough time to read into anything. The code at my job is a fucking mess and it's taking months and months and months for me just to slowly get one component properly sorted out, and then it usually just becomes shit spaghetti after 2 weeks anyway because "bossman wants a thing". Compared to that, everything I write at home looks like a work of engineering art.

Funniest thing is, my own projects tend to develop faster and stay more stable despite the fact that I work on them like 6 hours a week tops.