You can, and sometimes that's the right answer. Where it gets hard: security CVEs that need patching but the fix is only in the new major, transitive deps that

You can, and sometimes that's the right answer. Where it gets hard: security CVEs that need patching but the fix is only in the new major, transitive deps that bump and bring incompatibilities, hiring a contractor who doesn't know your locked version. None of those are insurmountable, but they're real tax.