Cheap maxims written by someone whose immediate response to your comment was just two words: "React developer?"
Since flagged, but it's also highly relevant here, since it shows this isn't someone who's interested in serious thoughts or discussion about the merits of his arguments, just hot takes and cheap shots. Whatever he may have done in the past, I see no reason why he should be taken seriously here.
They are one liner maxims about things that are impossible to don't understand. You may argue, for instance, why it happened, what are (if any) the good sides, for instance, of this absurd chain of dependencies, but if you don't get that there is wrong, and those are just cheap maxims, you don't deserve more than that two words. Because here there is at play a lot of self-protection. There are a lot of people that would not even deserve a job, and they have it thanks to this new incarnation of software, and especially if they live in socially unsafe places like US, where if you lose your position it's not clear where you may finally end, since there are too little social protections, then people strongly overreact to anything that questions the status quo where, for the good or the bad, they kinda have some role.
Saying this as a fan of the article who agreed with the whole thing...
> and especially if they live in socially unsafe places like US, where if you lose your position it's not clear where you may finally end
This is very unlikely to be motivating the comments you see here. The devs here are fine and don't worry about this kind of thing, by and large. But you're not all wrong, because what is probably happening is that they feel their identity, which is tied up with those insane tools and ecosystems, is being attacked.
That makes sense, thanks. We are all in part into this situation, because one bit here, one bit there, that's what we, as a collective entity, built, and there are clearly things that are not working as expected. It's hard to acknowledge that and improve the situation, since it also creates frictions in the way we work day-to-day, but still I hope to see this improving, in some way.
Since flagged, but it's also highly relevant here, since it shows this isn't someone who's interested in serious thoughts or discussion about the merits of his arguments, just hot takes and cheap shots. Whatever he may have done in the past, I see no reason why he should be taken seriously here.