By this twisted logic, you think dependencies should be more problematic and have dependencies of their own so they are as painful as possible so people don't a

By this twisted logic, you think dependencies should be more problematic and have dependencies of their own so they are as painful as possible so people don't add them? That's your scenario now and you have lots of dependencies. Any dependency needs to be considered, there is no way around that. There is no reason to make it more painful just to make a programmer's life more difficult and single file libraries, especially those that have no dependencies themselves are the best case scenario.