Some developers accept it as a reality, but it's only a reality if you're doing it. I think the time to figure this out is before your project gets a mess of hundreds or thousands of dependencies. Bringing in even a single dependency should be a big deal. Something you agonize over. Something you debate and study. Something you don't do unless you really, really mean it. Certainly not a casual decision. Some languages/environments make it too easy. Easy like: A single command line command and you now have a dependency. Total madness!