>> Any insight into why this is so much the case with npm but not seemingly as bad in other ecosystems (dependency trees in npm are huge). I would think that t

>> Any insight into why this is so much the case with npm but not seemingly as bad in other ecosystems (dependency trees in npm are huge). I would think that the sheer popularity of the JavaScript (and therefore Node) ecosystems contributes partially to it - there's a massive industry out there about skilling new developers up in JavaScript, Node, and some front-end frameworks. But it definitely doesn't explain all of it.