[klabb3]

You’re not old and cranky. Just (minimally base line) responsible.

Many frontend projects have 100s of deps, and while that’s a separate problem, imagine if a large fraction of them spammed bandwidth and console output with this.

[coldtea]

A project with "100s of deps" is already irresponsible and bloated for that alone.

Some logo or ASCII art in some/most of those deps would hardly be the real issue.

[beezlewax]

The dependencies usually have dependencies and then... well it's dependencies all the way down in the JS world. 100s is sadly normal for large proects in my limited experience.