I do agree with the nature of self sufficiency. That is the start of durability. Most people find this revolting though. The goal, for most people, isn’t stuff that works properly. The goal is inclusion and comfort, a social baseline opposed to a utility baseline.

At some point we might be able to be confident that the current version of all our dependecies has been carefully reviewed by enough reliable people, but right now we're not even moving in that direction; so, minimizing the dependencies is the proper thing to do.