The main point of this (and similar - you-dont-need-jquery et al) is [should be] for those people who need a tiny piece of functionality that would take maybe a

The main point of this (and similar - you-dont-need-jquery et al) is [should be] for those people who need a tiny piece of functionality that would take maybe a couple of lines of code, and import a dependency to deal with it. That's not too unusual - in a similar vein I spent a fair part of last year tearing hundreds–thousands of Kb of jQuery plugins (jQuery UI put in for one thing was pretty common) out of Rails apps because of this. Lodash I'd say is unequivocally great (particularly the FP version, which I prefer to Ramda now), but these kind of posts aren't really for those who really need the full suite of functionality. Or at least it's very useful for those starting out on a project, who can then add in Lodash/whatever if/when the need arises, rather than reflexively adding it at the start.