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Teams I've worked in choose SaaS offerings based on how little expertise we have in the given domain, and the price (which includes actual monies going to the SaaS, but also the expected time of integrating with them and an expectation cost of migrating away from them).

Experienced developers have the humility to understand that there are always roadbumps and risks in building a system in a domain we do not understand, and therefore paying another company with expertise can often be worth it. Obviously some SaaS companies are better than others, which is why there is an evaluation process.

It does not surprise me (unfortunately) that proponents of using AI agents for everything minimize the value of actual lived experience in working in a given domain.