What amazes me more is that there are people actively arguing that this is a good thing. You see developers spend huge amounts of time chasing down obscure dependency issues and begging on forums for help with how library X works with version Y on platform Z, yet many of these same folks will come online and tell you that this is a great thing.

It's like many of us (and I include myself in this observation) are unable to step outside our own work and see how we actually spend our time. We become so obsessed on the goal that we lose track of how many new obstacles we put in our own way year-after-year.