[xorcist]

You have it backwards. The engineering culture that said autoconf increases attack surface, the culture that said that the design of PAM is too complex, that did not accept the patch to link libsystemd to sshd, is the one that constantly tries to avoid unnecessary dependencies.

The engineering culture that non-ironically suggests linking a JSON parser is the culture that disregards the challenges that maintaining dependencies brings.

Yesterday it may have been soups of automatically generated shell scripts, but today it is soups of automatically generated YAML and JSON.