I wish people would stop conflating "dependency complexity" with "dependency count". It's ruining a lot of otherwise legitimate arguments, for no other reason than 'number high'.
There is no meaningful complexity difference between 1 dependency that does 10 things, or 10 dependencies from one author that each do 1 thing.
Relatedly: if you think that "everybody should be building simpler software", maybe help out on addressing the capitalist conditions under which the current development practices have developed?
Like, these practices did not come from nowhere, and there's a *reason* that decades of "just do better" blogposts have not led to meaningful improvements in development practices
