And 997 of those are development tooling dependencies that are not included in the application that you eventually deploy. Don't get me wrong, I would rather t

And 997 of those are development tooling dependencies that are not included in the application that you eventually deploy. Don't get me wrong, I would rather there were fewer development dependencies too, but they are tooling abstractions that you are _opting-in_ to. If that is still a cognitive burden, then there's nothing to stop you using React a build step through a CDN.