> Workflow orchestration is a mature category, as evidenced by the length of this list (...)
Or could it be an evidence that the existing tools all have their flaws and any reasonably sized organization will hit these flaws pretty early, so many orgs come to the conclusion that the best approach is to just roll their own that fits their case relatively well?
Are you at all familiar with the data integration / ETL framework space?
If so, I think you would recognize how unreasonable the presumption of your comment is. It certainly strikes me as such.
Most if not all the big OSS frameworks and commercial offerings originated in one big corp and subsequently moved into the Apache direction (Airflow) or spun out into their own companies.
Or could it be an evidence that the existing tools all have their flaws and any reasonably sized organization will hit these flaws pretty early, so many orgs come to the conclusion that the best approach is to just roll their own that fits their case relatively well?