In the dark ages of .NET, developers had to crawl the internet for dependencies, run installers, create bloated lib folders, and possibly introduce assemblies into the Global Assembly Cache. Gross! Those who remember will agree it was terrible, but it's better now!
We can all breathe a deep sigh of relief knowing that package management is central to most modern technology stacks, including our beloved .NET. Today, most developers instinctually reach to the catalog of packages on NuGet to solve mundane to difficult problems. That's a good thing, but easy access to solutions also can lull us in
