“I don't see much R code that seems to stick to the R "standard library" rather than pulling in a million packages to do anything.” People teach the tidyverse

“I don't see much R code that seems to stick to the R "standard library" rather than pulling in a million packages to do anything.” People teach the tidyverse to new r users. It makes them think that it’s standard practice to pull in lots of unnecessary but possibly convenient packages. Simple string manipulation should not require an extra package like stringr, but for many users it does. Often, they were taught this way.