[jonpacker]

I disagree. I think node's approach is easily understandable, and quite robust. It's incredibly easy to dive down the dependency chain and see every package, and know exactly which one is being used where. Not something that can be said about package managers that use the flattened approach.

[xpaulbettsx]

Pretty Printing the full dependency tree is a feature that could be easily added to npm itself, and in a way easier way to understand than trying to read through a directory tree