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This is yet another strawman.

Only if 'strawman' means 'thing I disagree with'. The comment says such a dependence is bad and how you have to prepare for it with SLAs or whatever. This isn't universally true at all.

I doubt there would be replies.

A lot of really boring, trite things generate piles of replies. That's why they should be avoided.

Just because the point has been made before doesn't make it any less valid

The stated goal of the forum is not 'an exhaustive, if repetitive collection of generically valid things'. Remember that time you wanted to print something and the thing just wouldn't print? That's bad and annoying. It's valid that it's bad and annoying. We probably don't need to talk about it in the general sense every time it happens, though.