The Dependency Apocalypse

Cooking is predictable. Dependencies are not. You're happily chopping veggies for your code soup when BAM! Your package manager throws a tantrum because apparently some library maintainer decided carrots aren't cool anymore.

The pure existential dread of running npm update only to watch your entire project implode because someone decided to make a "minor improvement" that breaks your entire architecture is the stuff of developer nightmares.

And don't get me started on those cryptic deprecation warnings that basically translate to "this will work today but might spontaneously combust tomorrow, good luck!"