The House Of Cards We Call Software

Behold, the Tower of Babel approach to software development! You spend weeks meticulously stacking your project like some architectural masterpiece, only for the universe to whisper: "That random library your entire foundation depends on? Yeah, it's getting deprecated tomorrow."

It's like building a house of cards on top of someone else's house of cards, and they've just decided to take up competitive sneezing. The higher your tower of dependencies grows, the more spectacular the inevitable collapse. And yet we keep building taller, don't we?