Is there an internet law for when you spend weeks looking for a framework or library to solve a problem and it only reveals itself after your organization makes

Is there an internet law for when you spend weeks looking for a framework or library to solve a problem and it only reveals itself after your organization makes a really bad choice to do something else? I have been looking for exactly this kind of local proxy to dynamically hack headers and dynamically spoof responses for an internal app. This would have been the perfect starting place...