NPM often gets flak, but just right now I installed youtube-dl on a raspbian install and it has brought over 100 dependencies including adwaita-icon-theme, libq

NPM often gets flak, but just right now I installed youtube-dl on a raspbian install and it has brought over 100 dependencies including adwaita-icon-theme, libqt5printsupport5, libgtk-3-0, x11-xserver-utils, libwayland-server0. However installing it from pip demands nothing and the program works. (yes, I know that it can use ffmpeg to remux videos, but from pip it also works without that).