Its the culture.  My first RoR application a decade ago had basically no dependencies.  The medium article implies the cool kids won&#x27;t build an app unless it has enough dependencies to be unmaintainable and undeployable.  So either you can&#x27;t use the cool kids or you can&#x27;t use the tool, the combo is no longer sustainable, its just done.  The high time preference people will insist you install GEMs until the crash, its a technological bubble of sorts.<p>Also my first CRUD app was very small and boring.  That means un-debuggable isn&#x27;t a big deal.  Now apps are huge, therefore undebuggable.  Even if you limit external dependencies that doesn&#x27;t help internal dependencies.<p>You can prototype things quickly, as long as they&#x27;re small, featureless, no one uses them, and you don&#x27;t care how difficult the are to deploy or debug.  Other than that, no problem.  Hmm.