The problem is that Kubernetes went backwards in version numbers. I want to depend on, say, v0.19.0, but through the dependency chain, we end up with a depende

The problem is that Kubernetes went backwards in version numbers. I want to depend on, say, v0.19.0, but through the dependency chain, we end up with a dependency on v12.0.0. (At some point, they decided to switch from "kubernetes x.y.z = client-go@vx.y.z" to "kubernetes x.y.z = client-go@v0.x.y".) I made a test module that depends on loki and kubernetes, and updating kubernetes results in: $ go get k8s.io/client-go@v0.19.0 go: downloading k8s.io/client-go v0.19.0 go get: downgraded github.com/grafana/loki v1.5.0 => v1.0.2 go get: downgraded github.com/thanos-io/thanos v0.12.1-0.20200416112106-b391ca115ed8 => v0.11.0 go get: downgraded k8s.io/client-go v12.0.0+incompatible => v0.19.0 This causes loki to downgrade to a version that doesn't work. I don't blame the module system for this, I think it's doing a great job. But when you use other people's code, you're responsible for the transitive closure of all their minor tiny mistakes, and when you depend on big codebases, the mistakes really add up. That's where the hate comes from; a lot of code was written before modules existed, and modules changed the semantics of that code.