I understand that this article is satire, but I don't understand what it is exactly making fun of.
In a way, I'm interjecting myself into some sort of "great debate" (dependencies are nuts! web frontend tooling is nuts! CSS is the worst!) and just poking fun at both sides. Planting myself firmly in the middle, without much of an opinion, just making sure we don't take ourselves too seriously.
They're fun to write because it's really a stream of consciousness. I don't edit the posts, I don't fix typos. So it's public therapy in that regard.
the whole "oh god, excessive dependencies mean js is gonna die!" response that people had at the time, which was imo more due to their dislike of JS as opposed to the dependency management