Ha, yes. Especially in the contexts you describe.
Don’t give up though. It only takes a few small examples of simple successes and one or two “believers” to start something like this.
I’ve been involved in similar efforts, so 
for trying.
https://github.com/ros-drivers/transport_drivers
The Velodyne driver from Apex.AI is planned to be merged into ros-drivers to replace the current Velodyne driver, once it has support for more than the 16-ray version of the hardware.