Reply to Sample Packs - Loopmasters and the like?

So.

I know it's best to do everything yourself. From using the recorded sound of a basketball you smashed against a tin roof for a hat, and hitting a door for another thing.

But what do people honestly believe about these sample packs and the like?

I'm finding more and more that... people just don't care as long as the end result is good? When I first got, and still to some degree, into production, I thought each artist was doing /everything/ basically themselves. And I've known about these packs for awhile, and I've bought a couple for different drum samples and such in the past.

But where do you consider the cutoff line for using them? Some of them do have some awesome bits that I don't know how to make. I should probably learn how to make those sounds. But is it entirely taboo to use these things?

I also realized when chilling with another local DJ, that he was almost using exclusively sample packs and the like for some of his "self" production stuff. Which, in a sense, is cheating. But on another level, it's composition using sounds, and wouldn't exist unless he was putting things the way they were.

I'm kind of at an impasse right now with myself. I want to just purchase a couple hundred bucks worth of sample packs, have some fun with it. I'll probably do some, but not a ton of synth work myself. But is that acceptable today? I'm really lost as to where these sample packs use and not use, are the line of what is acceptable and what is not.