Sure, it's not black and white - it's a scale. We don't lawyer up for literally everything. But we do lawyer up for a lot of things.

It's sort of like the "never roll your own security" advice that gets brought out when people ask questions about crypto. To a certain extent, yeah, we do have to roll our own security. Of course developers need to roll their own stuff, at least at the integration level.

But as soon as it gets even slightly dangerous, I'm not going to be doing, say, my own XSS filtering. I need a vetted library at that point.

I've been taught to think of the law the same way - you don't roll your own legal advice.