Why is this absurd? Order-dependent installation and massive node_modules trees seem a lot more absurd to me. Why not just have node parse all the package.json'

Why is this absurd? Order-dependent installation and massive node_modules trees seem a lot more absurd to me. Why not just have node parse all the package.json's (or, perhaps, npm-shrinkwrap.json) at startup time? Then `require` could easily parse that and know what dependency version from the flat node_modules to deliver.