I don't think your parent comment was hating on NPM / Node specifically, but rather was pointing out that the biggest determiner of whether programmers on a par

I don't think your parent comment was hating on NPM / Node specifically, but rather was pointing out that the biggest determiner of whether programmers on a particular platform depend willy-nilly on whatever libraries they can find just to make coding small features more convenient is whether the language ecosystem they're in makes that easy to do. For that reason, your point about Go only further reinforces their point, since Go was (I think) the first language to make importing another project from the web completely trivial, just one line of code. On the one hand, I think it's bad for a language ecosystem to repeatedly get in the way of doing something that it many cases it does make sense to do, but on the other hand if you think (most) programmers are going to immediately take us to modern programming dependency hell without that, you can start to see it as a kind of silver lining.