[stephenr]

I can't agree more, but honestly who's surprised here?

Since the introduction of nodejs and NPM, JavaScript developers have been on a ridiculous NIH-fuelled frenzy to recreate everything that ever existed, using as many dependencies (and sub-dependencies) as humanly possible to do so, while also actively choosing to not solve problems that they come across, and instead implementing ridiculous work arounds or replacing/rewriting entire components or apps, rather than working out they were missing a config option, etc.

I am not at all surprised that the nodejs/npm community's response to NPM being such a pig, is to put lipstick on that pig, and try to make it look prettier, while doing nothing about it shitting all over the couch and proceeding to lay in said shit.