[RugnirViking]

A more catastrophic number of programmers a) dont know how dependencies work and b) think everyone else are idiots.

[kristopolous]

Perhaps, I solidly understand how dependencies work and in this case my observation is defensible

Someone made the decision to use that and someone thought using stuff made by a person's who makes those kinds of decisions was a good idea and so on.

You can git blame dependencies all the way down and research the parties involved. I've done it, built tools for it even.

A stack of people who make bad decisions doesn't make good software.

[robertlagrant]

More likely the author made another, more useful, package that uses it.