For me personally, the fact that even a simple node project will have well over 1000 dependencies is a problem. Slightly more complex projects will have more th

For me personally, the fact that even a simple node project will have well over 1000 dependencies is a problem. Slightly more complex projects will have more than 10k dependencies. Auditing is nearly impossible. The complete lack of a standard stdlib means always relying on community packages. Also, not a complaint directly against node directly, but for the ecosystem and developers. There is not a culture of compatibility, further fueled by the fact that multiple versions of the same dependency can be included in the same code base by different dependencies. Coming from any other language were it is a goal to keep external dependencies down, nodejs is nightmare fuel.