Grandma told me, boy, don't install too many WordPress plugins or you will get burned.

I heard her :p

Well I always was against installing a plugin for every simple small thing. Usually ended up coding a lot of stuff and only used around 10 plugins at max on client sites. On my own I only have 2 or 3 plugins.

Let this post serve as a reminder of this golden rule, do not install a lot of plugins on a site. This is not a WordPress only issue this is a real world issue that happens on all tech stacks, frameworks/libraries, etc.

So what should we learn from this is that we need to rely the least possible from external resources (plugins/packages) and be very cautious when we add one to be sure about the quality of resource we are adding into our project.