[sobjornstad]

I'm also pretty new to JS but totally agree. Half my Python projects have zero dependencies (except for development tools which don't get packaged with the app) because everything I want is already in the standard library.

It feels like a quarter of the time I spend working on projects that use npm is spent debugging my toolchain because of excessive complexity or weird problems in random dependencies. Doesn't seem like it should be too much to ask that I can spend most of my development time working on actual code.