Andrew Boon I know how you feel. I got out of the IT industry in 2008 and have recently returned. When I first started back into Visual studio I was inundated with nuget packages and dependencies and I really felt out of place.

When I started programming in the 80s we cared about each bit of memory we used. strongly typed variables etc was a thing.  It seems now like programming has turned into a big house of cards. everything is dependent on everything.  to be honest it makes me very nervous as a coder. 

It's nice to grab someones mod that has a lot of bells and whistles but there is always that little bit of doubt that they won't continue with updates and like you said many don't follow good design practices.

I'm happy what's going on with UNA. I'm glad to hear that you have a similar mind set of independence and I look forward to whatever is to come.

Thank you all for your hard work.