[oxff]

Ocaml is just a mess. Has like two standard libs. You'll just fighting everything but your application logic instead.

[octachron]

There is only one OCaml build system (dune) which is used by people that don't write their own build system. But yes, you have the freedom of using alternative to the OCaml standard library if you wish so.

[oxff]

I might terminally dumb

[pjmlp]

Having an npm like ecosystem is hardly better.