Larry Niven - Ringworld (+ Ringworld Engineers), The long Arm of Gil Hamilton, Oath of Fealty (Oh man! They had instant messaging wetware! ...And a diving board!).
Robert Heinlein, Joe Haldeman, and Issac Asimov are some other heavy hitters in this space.
I maintain a class library that is highly depended upon in the rest of our company. I don't like to introduce dependencies at my later because of that. So things like DI are all factory patterns / builder patterns. It's explicit and has kept my object lifecycle super manageable.
It feels like the people who meme about EnterpriseFactoryFactory at times just haven't hit the right use case for it.
Robert Heinlein, Joe Haldeman, and Issac Asimov are some other heavy hitters in this space.