> You jest at left-pad, but there's real value in simple libraries they might only be "a few lines of code" Nicely said, but you omit the elephant in the room:

> You jest at left-pad, but there's real value in simple libraries they might only be "a few lines of code" Nicely said, but you omit the elephant in the room: that the dependencies have their cost, which is quite high and is rarely matched, much less offset, by the value of these "simple libraries".