I was responding to "striving to reduce the number of dependencies is a good goal". I don't think that's categorically true. I think it's an XY problem where on

I was responding to "striving to reduce the number of dependencies is a good goal". I don't think that's categorically true. I think it's an XY problem where one would do better to focus on the 'X' (i.e. reducing risk of malicious third-party code).