I think one of the core issues contributing to fragile, continuously-updated software is a culture of over-using dependencies. Each dependency added is a potent

I think one of the core issues contributing to fragile, continuously-updated software is a culture of over-using dependencies. Each dependency added is a potential complexity trap. Using a dependency that has few sub-dependencies is less likely to cause problems. Or that has several sub-dependencies that each have no dependencies. It's deep dependency trains that are likely to cause this. Ie, dependencies that depend on multiple others.