I don't think people are making fun of other people here, we are lauhging at a particular software engineering pathology, that's all. There are important lesson

I don't think people are making fun of other people here, we are lauhging at a particular software engineering pathology, that's all. There are important lessons in the story of left-pad library to be learned not only by JavaScript programmers, it's pretty universal, I remember someone asking about API for min and max for Java (not JavaScript) on StackOverflow.