I love working with hackable software. I kind of attack it at the source level vs writing for the browser however. For example, say there’s some tool on a git repo. I will shamelessly clone it and build off of it to my own liking. Maybe I add another 1% to the code base, or maybe that repo becomes 1% of a codebase I write on my own. These are tools I could never share however, because of the rampant plagiarism I am doing, and the fact I don’t much care about getting it to run on different systems beyond my own. That being said fast and loose coding like this is a very powerful way to iterate on personal projects that never need to be anything but. I wish more things were actually hackable especially mobile or appliance hardware. Companies never like giving the power users the reigns for some reason.
Plagiarism? The vast majority of codebases I've seen on GitHub specifically allow you to do what you are doing. No need to make it sound like a bad thing.