My opinion is that the standard library of JS is so underwhelming that a high % of installs on NPM are for things that the standard library _should_ give you, b

My opinion is that the standard library of JS is so underwhelming that a high % of installs on NPM are for things that the standard library _should_ give you, but doesn't. Date/time, currency, csv, arbitrary precision decimals, int/bigint math, the entirety of lodash, etc. Give JS a fitting standard library, and I'd bet you see the dependency trees shrink by a factor of 10.