It is too bad though that e.g. IntelliJ cannot tell the difference, will offer you the transitive dependency's stuff in code completion, and now you are tied to

It is too bad though that e.g. IntelliJ cannot tell the difference, will offer you the transitive dependency's stuff in code completion, and now you are tied to it. Of course, the thing _you_ used went away in the newer version that the newer version of your direct dependency uses, and now you're spending time figuring out dependencies instead of writing code. Which, in my experience, happens pretty much all the time in Java/Scala land. (and I won't start about the sorry state of build tools for the JVM; seen them all, nothing is as nice as what I'm using now (Elixir/Mix)).