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I remember part of the discourse being that this was a much needed wake up call to web-devs for their relentless reliance on micro packages like left-pad. Part of it was the culture of publishing packages for the sake of popularity and github stars. Part of it were also devs insisting that implementing anything that could otherwise be installed through NPM was "reinventing the wheel". Today I work with a lot of devs who still prefer using micro packages, regardless of their simplicity, because to them it means "less maintenance". Go figure.