It most certainly is. You can be pedantic and argue that you’re depending on an HTML rendering engine but so is everyone else. The key is minimizing unnecessary dependencies. This is seen as untenable in communities that love to crow about “social coding,” but there are other groups of people who are happily living that.

They just aren’t chattering away about it.

It depends on what you choose to rely on.

There's web tech from decades ago that still works almost entirely the same. If you stick to the most beaten path, you can really profit off it.

A lot of "legacy" software is still kicking because of this. Well... it works and solves the problem. And we can update it too, if we just stick to what we're doing. There's Perl scripts decades old still chugging along on servers all over the world. There's Windows applications written in the 90s that work pretty much exactly the same and are still updated in C++.

Well at the risk of spoiling an almost 70 year old book, the Shire didn't manage to escape being affected by larger middle earthly events either