[taeric]

I do think there is a legitimate question on why we feel such granular dependencies are normal in software. I suspect the dependency graph for many photography studios was smaller than what a hobby website entails. Heck, I suspect early hobby journals had shorter dependency lists than hobby websites do.

That said, I hesitate to put too much emphasis on this. Largely suspecting that we have such granular dependency charts because we can. There is virtually no harm in having such large charts of things. Not that it helps, of course, but what is the harm?

Nor are you lacking a ton of resilience here? If you know what you want your website to be, you can probably recreate it faster than you'd suspect. Especially if you can target more modern browsers.