As a point of fact, the sanctimony of referring to something as a "hacky workaround" began here, where _you_ were the one to (unironically) introduce the phrase

As a point of fact, the sanctimony of referring to something as a "hacky workaround" began here, where _you_ were the one to (unironically) introduce the phrase: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29528285 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29528285> Pointing out the logical inconsistency of a strong claim is not provocation, no matter how much you feel like you are the one who is being attacked. I don't recognize your claim that the distinction is arbitrary. Is the NPM world's distinction between package.json's "dependencies" vs "devDependencies" arbitrary? (Answer: no.)