The Boost Virus

Why is everyone so fucking inclined to use Boost?
Why do you need to add a fuck ton of dependencies on your small toy programs?

Can't you just stick with vanilla C++ and do us all a favor?

If there's anything I'm never installing for a project? It's boost.

Ditto for trying to put as many of those OMG NEW C++11/16/17/1337 features/libraries/templates/whatever into the code just for the novelty of it. "I read about X somewhere, let's use it!" I've seen what could easily be done in a single C function call turn into a 5-layer-deep nested template instantiation that creates a few dozen intermediate objects and winds its way through just as many method calls... before making that very same C function call itself.