The obvious benefit to me are the automations, I have directly experienced these time benefits

I read you think these automations lead to more harm than good so are a net negative, and I understand that point of view

However, I think this is not a tautology

I think dependency hells and bad dependencies absolutely happen indeed, but are conditioned to badly managed programming projects

And I do not want to suffer from the dumbing down of stripping out package managers

Choose your own hell then. I'm not going to stop you.

And no, it's not a tautology, it's an empirical observation.

And as I said, not everything ought to be automated, especially hell.