[rtpg]

I think the fact that everyone cites the same is-number package when saying this is indicative of something though.

Like I legit think that we are all imagining this cultural problem that's widespread. My claim (and I tried to do some graph theory stuff on this in the past and gave up) is that in fact we are seeing something downstream of a few "bad actors" who are going way too deep on this.

I also dislike things like webpack making every plugin an external dep but at least I vaguely understand that.

[serial_dev]

Have you heard of the left pad incident?

The problem is not imagined.

[rtpg]

Even there the "problem" was left-pad being used by one or two projects used in "everything".

So the problem isn't that everyone is picking up small deps, but that _some_ people who write libs that are very popular are picking up small deps and causing this to happen.

This is different because it doesn't really say that all JS developers are looking to include left-pad. But I _do_ think that lots of library authors are too excited to make these kinds of dep trees