[lhorie]

Eh, node_modules hacking is certainly not great by any stretch of the imagination, but once you work with it long enough, there's a bunch of stuff that you just get efficient at. Spamming undos in open files is fairly easy. If the editing ends up being a real fix, then you upstream it and install again. There's also considerations about jump-to-definition and similar tools, etc.

You can't accidentally commit your debugging (unplug edits package.json and there's no replug command) and you don't end up with 3 unplugged folders for the same package (that's a whole can of worms on its own). There's also some yarn 2 specific pitfalls regarding __dirname in local packages, symlinking semantics, etc.

Anyways, getting way too into the weeds here, I better stop now lol :)