Compared. To. What? (Alternatively: "uh... yes?")
This is something like the third time that I've had to confront a comment alluding to the idea that having dependencies checked in to your repo means that updating them becomes, through some unspecified means, extremely difficult. And not just difficult, but intractably difficult. How exactly? Who knows—I've asked, but all I get are the same sort of continual allusions, as if it's some forgone conclusion on which there is common agreement, or it's a self-evident truth or something, but the actual thought process behind the remarks remain as impenetrable as the first time it was said. Please show your work. Please.
What precisely is the mechanism by which this this is supposed to happen and that forms the basis for your position? What two things precisely are you comparing to one another? Be specific. Don't be vague.
This conversation shouldn't be this exasperatingly difficult to have.