I see "tree shaking" as a common defense (too often IMO) from people arguing over bloated code and dependencies. But in this case, tree shaking simply doesn't

I see "tree shaking" as a common defense (too often IMO) from people arguing over bloated code and dependencies. But in this case, tree shaking simply doesn't occur at all in this scenario since npm modules are installed on the backend, and tree shaking simply doesn't occur on the backend.