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The NPM/JS/TS hellhole is real. Moved on from it a couple of years ago, and today I switch between Go and PHP (WP custom stuff).

Obviously Go and PHP are two very different languages but they bring me peace in ways JS never did. Especially when reopening older projects.

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It's goofy to me how many devs think the art of writing software necessitates continually updating dependencies to have things not break. You're running in place! You could be working on something new that generates value, or adding features to what you have in that time.

To me, dependency management is a part of software maintenance and it's not always just 'running in place'. Updates bring security patches (sometimes not publicly explained or disclosed), performance improvements, and new features that could enhance the value generated by the said software.

you only point out positives, but the negatives are usually felt a lot more intensively

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