The huge dependency trees was a major turnoff for me when I started using the Javascript ecosystem like Node and React. When installing React, I received error

The huge dependency trees was a major turnoff for me when I started using the Javascript ecosystem like Node and React. When installing React, I received errors and depreciation warnings in the latest build available. What kind of confidence is that supposed to give me when something distributed by one of the largest tech company in the world seems unreliable? Even later, I've faced numerous issues where I had to manually find a fix online since a random dependency disappeared or new version was incompatible with the rest of my entire dev tree.