In reply to Scott Walkinshaw.

> I find myself defensive against attitudes like this in the WordPress world because most people (including WP core devs) are so against new tools and technologies. It’s for that reason that I usually find posts like this more harmful than helpful...

Amen. You know why most traditional devs hate WordPress? It's because of things like this. My clients pay me to be a professional and maintain very functional sites with high availability and uptime... To do this I have to adhere to utilizing positive development techniques such as utilization of a package manager.

I absolutely agree that this post is harmful and caters more to a population of more casual WP developers who would rather not spend the extra time ensuring proper dependency management and adhering to solid/testable/safe practices.