You're making an even stronger case for poverty level minimalism than I think I ever could. The freedom you lose by having to maintain all of that... No thanks.
In about 2010, I briefly had a contract with a security firm with one dev, and there was no source control, and everything written was in low quality PHP. I quit after a week.
php_final_final_v2.zip shipped to production. A classic. I had a similar experience with https://www.ioncube.com/ php encryption. Everything encrypted and no source control.
It's also interesting how plants seem to have something like a mind without a brain. Yet another nail in the materialism coffin for me.
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