On "Dwarf Fortress uses version control now"

Dwarf Fortress finally adopting version control after years of development without it is a perfect parable for why tooling debt compounds silently until it becomes ridiculous—the game's legendary complexity made VC seem unnecessary until it became essential, which is backwards. Any practitioner working in a legacy system or growing codebase should take this as a warning: the argument that "we're too complex for standard tools" is almost always the opposite of reality. You adopt tooling when friction is low, not when the project has calcified into something unmaintainable.