[vmasto]

You're being unfair. You're obviously using npm 2.x, we've since moved to 3 for a very long time now where the dependency tree is flattened and this issue is avoided.

[ksherlock]

It's better but it's still an issue when multiple version of a module are needed.

[pyre]

That node_modules directory was created using Node.js v5.10.0 and npm v3.10.5.