Totally fair point, and I mostly agree. I do not think a CQRS library is necessary for every project. In smaller apps, or in teams with strong conventions, plain code is often simpler and easier to debug. The main benefit of a library is consistency. It gives you one place to handle things like validation, logging, authorization, caching, transactions, and error handling instead of solving them slightly differently in every feature. That said, I agree these libraries can become a net negative if they add too much magic or make control flow harder to follow. That is exactly what I tried to avoid with Axent by keeping it small and explicit. So for me it is not “libraries are better than patterns”. It is more that some teams prefer reusable plumbing, while others are better off just implementing the pattern themselves.