Perhaps in 2023, but in 2011, we were still at the edge of when people would deploy by moving folders and individual files via FTP, hard-coding credentials, and

Perhaps in 2023, but in 2011, we were still at the edge of when people would deploy by moving folders and individual files via FTP, hard-coding credentials, and dropping in extracted zip files as a method of dependency management. Of course even then added layers were often considered "burden", but in general, we need some degree of order lest we create an unmanageable mess of index.old.3 and files edited directly on production.