That bureaucracy makes sense to me. You're _shipping_ those dependencies. When something misbehaves or allows an exploit it doesn't matter if it happened in a

That bureaucracy makes sense to me. You're _shipping_ those dependencies. When something misbehaves or allows an exploit it doesn't matter if it happened in a dependency or not -- the dependency isn't the one who's accountable to customers and the regulatory authorities. It sounds like the processes in use to do this may have been pretty crappy in the organizations you've been with, but it also sounds like it would take less time than implementing a dependency's functionality from scratch in most cases you'd want to pull in a dep.