Yup, I agree it's likely not a popular opinion. In my experience, developers love developing frameworks and tools, even when it isn't necessary.
I mean, it's just fun. Developers are biased to do things that make work interesting, even if it's superfluous. We think that coming up with a better framework or tool will save time in the future. I think that often it's just a wash or a net negative since you now have to maintain this tool AND when you first start on creating it, you are sort of naive about what it needs to support, so you open yourself up to a lot of hurt later when clients of your tool come up with more requirements than you envisioned.
I mean, it's just fun. Developers are biased to do things that make work interesting, even if it's superfluous. We think that coming up with a better framework or tool will save time in the future. I think that often it's just a wash or a net negative since you now have to maintain this tool AND when you first start on creating it, you are sort of naive about what it needs to support, so you open yourself up to a lot of hurt later when clients of your tool come up with more requirements than you envisioned.