"And yet there is no solutions besides yolo-live-with-it." There is a solution: Stop accounting for dependencies as zero cost. Start accounting for their costs

"And yet there is no solutions besides yolo-live-with-it." There is a solution: Stop accounting for dependencies as zero cost. Start accounting for their costs, in their need to be updated, understood, and possibly significant overcompelexity for your needs, plus all these costs are transitive into the dependencies they pull in. This is not a magic solution. It doesn't mean you just think these magic thoughts and all your problems go away. But if you actually do this, it will solve your problems. It will turn the wide wonderful world of existing libraries back into a benefit instead of so often a net loss. I still use a lot of libraries, but I've been noticing lately I use more "fundamental" libraries. I use a YAML/JSON parser for my config, but I don't worry so much about all the fancy wrappers around config that try to make it super nice to have environment variables or maybe a config file or maybe map it to the command line or maybe get it from the network... I just use a config file parser and commit to having that. My dependency trees are not completely pristine exactly, but they end up with a lot of these sorts of things in them but not so much all-singing, all-dancing "frameworks" or text templating libraries that are so amazingly helpful that they have entire embedded scripting languages or other such things.