I am not sure how you got this conclusion from the article.

> So let's handle the hell manually to feel the pain better

This is far from my position. Literally the entire point is to make it clearer you are heading to dependency hell, rather than feel the pain better whilst you are there.

I am not against dependencies but you should know the costs of them and the alternatives. Package managers hide the complexity, costs, trade-offs, and alternative approaches, thus making it easier to slip into dependency hell.