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> he is also "burying the lead" in that he never gets to the point.

He does say this is the first of a series of articles, so I think this is an uncharitable criticism. Dependency management is a very big topic and talking about it with sophistication — which you need to do to actually solve the problem well — takes a lot of words.

> I think Russ did an unusually good job of explaining the ideas around vgo, grounded by using real world examples.

Sure, it's always easier to understand something when you talk about it in terms of small carefully-crafted examples. But with something like the emergent effects of dependency management tool UX choices on the health of a software ecosystem, you lose a lot when you limit your discussion to "here's what the algorithm does on these three toy packages".