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As someone who's developed and shipped software you may know, who's worked in rel/eng, OS security, escalations (we research the fix for the sploit and build the artifact for the update pipeline; everyone calls it something else) before being just an admin to manage hordes of machines; with the knowledge gained in every post I've ever held, let me say:
THIS. ABSOLUTELY THIS.
If you are a great coder but suck at packaging or hate it, then don't. You'd produce something sub-par anyway.
Let the knowledgeable enthusiastic obsessively-detailed people do it for you and you'll be happier and so will they.
Well, most arent. But create a software they want or need.