Or a limitation of the human mind. If you jam too many unrelated changes into one diff, people stop paying attention, because now reviewing it requires many mi

Or a limitation of the human mind. If you jam too many unrelated changes into one diff, people stop paying attention, because now reviewing it requires many minutes and note-taking. Since hundreds of line changes can have little or no effect, but a single line change somewhere else can have drastic effects, it is essential to separate the unimportant from the important. Changes in dependencies is a not unimportant change, but they tend to get treated like noise because those changes are associated with automated tooling, like the package tool. Updating dependencies separately solves a social problem, not a technical one.