tyto has come out of a common problem with managing and organising things for me personally and colleagues past and present, and my wanting to see if I could implement my own tool for tackling that issue.
The codebase is meant to be easy to read so that people can easily take it away and make it their own.
I actually ran into this while doing some research. One thing that worries me about using this framework is how much freedom would I get? I really need custom widgets, such as chat, videos, images and many other types. Do you think this will handle the large amount of custom code on top of it?
I don't see anything that would stop you from implementing it in that framework. It does have a some users, and if shopify uses it then it must be fairly stable and useful.
It really is true that at any moment there is probably 4 other teams working on a similar idea as you are.
Well I will not give up. Good luck to you too!