But for every beauty there was a lesson in humility. Hyperdeep addons amplified the ecosystem’s complexity until small decisions had outsized consequences. A seemingly innocuous optimization in a popular addon could ripple outward and break thousands of stacks. There were governance problems, too: forks competed for mindshare, maintainers burned out, and orphaned dependencies accumulated like tumbleweed. Users began to value maintainability over novelty. The most respected authors were those who documented, wrote tests, and accepted that compatibility was a social contract, not just a technical challenge.