Well yes, but the point is that everything in the stdlib receives scrutiny and a long-term commitment to mainenance/upkeep. A small proportion of pypi/npm recei

Well yes, but the point is that everything in the stdlib receives scrutiny and a long-term commitment to mainenance/upkeep. A small proportion of pypi/npm receives these things, but the vast majority is abandonware trash. You only have to briefly scroll through the main PyPI index to realise just how awful it is: https://pypi.org/simple/ https://pypi.org/simple/ (caution— multi-megabyte html)