The bad things in the article were the inner-platform effect and that the inner-platform was especially terrible (no comment support, tons of boilerplate, abuse

The bad things in the article were the inner-platform effect and that the inner-platform was especially terrible (no comment support, tons of boilerplate, abuse of the project's own source control, lack of dev/production split). I really don't think the concept of versioned dependencies was one of the bad parts.