> I am trying to argue that they are a net bad with virtually no good upsides to them for the programming world as a whole.

What I'm saying is that you have failed in this argument. You hardly even attempt to make it. Thus clickbait.

You said "this is why I am saying it is evil, as it will send you to hell quicker."

Okay, so then it's up to you to prove this hell actually exists. But you don't. You just assert its existence -- "Dependency hell is a real thing which anyone who has worked on a large project has experienced." By framing it this way, you can dismiss anyone who claims to not have experienced this as not having sufficient experience. But reading the comments here, a lot of people have experienced a sort of "dependency hell" (the kind that's talked about in the wiki you link to) that is solved by package managers.

So that's why it's classed as clickbait -- you (admittedly) wrote a provocative headline that you don't even remotely back up.

FYI for the future since you're lamenting in many comments that people are misinterpreting you, this is why. Given that you don't really make an attempt to prove this dependency hell and package managers are evil, and you don't acknowledge anything good about them, it's reasonable to assume your bias is just that dependencies are evil at their core. It's actually the most charitable reading because otherwise you seem confused.