faker was a disease that I fought against in the places where I was unfortunate enough to inherit it in the codebase. lots of devs not knowing better thinking

faker was a disease that I fought against in the places where I was unfortunate enough to inherit it in the codebase. lots of devs not knowing better thinking it really made our tests more robust -- it didn't, in fact, just more flaky. also faker's functionality can easily be shimmed or rolled yourself if you want to. I will continue the fight, there are many other super popular npm packages whose value is dubious at best, cause dependency tooling headaches, and are like viruses in the web ecosystem. and the fact this faker guy sabotaged his own package is great because even before that I was against it, and now it is just easier to convince people not to import this clown lib