This post is too dismissive and confuses some topics. "Packages", "modules", "functions", and other words can mean different things within different contexts.

This post is too dismissive and confuses some topics. "Packages", "modules", "functions", and other words can mean different things within different contexts. Well-known and tested functions are useful. Putting them in a "package" is just a consequence of how node/npm work. There should certainly be a much, much better implementation of code sharing, but sharing and using well-known, singular functions should be exactly what we are going for.