Dependency minimalism (writing software that deliberately tries to have as few dependencies as practical) is a really underrated virtue imo.

Every single dependency is a risk that "something will go wrong" during someone's installation process. Installing projects with hundreds of dependencies and walking through errors can be incredibly frustrating.

In the light of LLMs that generate code, some of it perhaps may be replacing a dependency that we would otherwise add, where is the bigger risk? I'm inclined to say that a large OSS project with many eyes on it may be the less risky option here.