A part of this is that the tooling mostly depends on huge trees of dependencies. If top level tools devs interacted with bundled more of their deps things migh

A part of this is that the tooling mostly depends on huge trees of dependencies. If top level tools devs interacted with bundled more of their deps things might be less likely to break, at the cost of a bigger node_modules folder. Right now you occasionally run into situations where Webpack or ESLint stops working right because is-even released a bad patch update.