The article highlights a huge pitfall of having lots of small dependencies, provides no real remediation, and says small dependencies are easier to reason about

The article highlights a huge pitfall of having lots of small dependencies, provides no real remediation, and says small dependencies are easier to reason about, so they're better anyway. I disagree. I personally find that with large projects, small dependencies actually become much harder to reason about - they sort of get lost in the codebase. Not to mention the duplication of small packages on npm doing similar things - with a large team, it's easy to add both to your codebase and then we're in a new sort of duplicative mess.