It's about risk assessment. No electricity / no internet means you have bigger problems. 435 npm modules is risky - so that needs to be managed but that's not n

It's about risk assessment. No electricity / no internet means you have bigger problems. 435 npm modules is risky - so that needs to be managed but that's not necessarily meaning ditch NPM. And for Etsy - well the usual play with these sorts of things is you use them for marketing then get the customer after they make a purchase to start using your real shop running on your own domain.