Sorry - that is not true. Actually i have never done that (at least not manually), and don't even know what updating dependencies means. It runs all updates automatically and has not failed once. I have run Linux for half a year, and only used the terminal a couple of times to adjust some weird thing that did not work out of the box. Linux has come a long way!

What took the longest time, was getting to learn new software instead of the usual suspects, like Photoshop and DaVinci

I've been on Linux full time for over 3 years - the only time I deal with dependencies is during my twice-monthly manual updates and new app installs, and even then I've only run into conflicts that required me to do more than hit y/n a couple of times, and they were easy fixes. My updates every 2 weeks take on average less than 5 mins total, most of it stuff downloading and installing while I continue to do other stuff.

If you're having a shit time with dependencies frequently, you're probably doing something wrong. Switch to nixos if it's that much of a problem, no more dependency issues.

What do you mean? Updating my linux is the fun part.