You are so right! (I blame the macro expansion based semantics of TeX packages.) I end up using a small number of very large packages that do almost everythin

You are so right! (I blame the macro expansion based semantics of TeX packages.) I end up using a small number of very large packages that do almost everything I need instead of trying to get numerous more focused packages to work together. (Memoir or KOMA, and TikZ handle most of my tasks.)