These days I appreciate Maven much more than I did at first (ugh, XML, lolenterprisejava amirite??). But the whack-a-dep thing is a real, genuine painpoint. Sp

These days I appreciate Maven much more than I did at first (ugh, XML, lolenterprisejava amirite??). But the whack-a-dep thing is a real, genuine painpoint. Spring Boot Starters make this fairly close to invisible, but there are still billions of lines of Java code where the POM is like the map of an incredibly fragile ceasefire between 813 variants of some 118 different dependencies at 18 levels of nesting. Like Game of Thrones, except bloodier, more complicated and much more likely to cause everyone to give up.