This is the fundamental problem. As an engineer you have to weigh every single dependency as a cost. If you take a dependency on 200 packages, then NOTHING is g

This is the fundamental problem. As an engineer you have to weigh every single dependency as a cost. If you take a dependency on 200 packages, then NOTHING is going to save you long term as things break. More or Less, Joyent was mostly doing what they were doing for a reason. What the io.js team is doing also has validity but fundamentally you will always see these issues to some extent because of the philosophy behind it.