"People pull hundreds of dependencies" only because Babel decided to split their package which used to be only one into hundreds of dependencies. A vanilla ins

"People pull hundreds of dependencies" only because Babel decided to split their package which used to be only one into hundreds of dependencies. A vanilla installation of create-react-app pulls 133 babel-owned packages, last I counted. If you pull all the available packages from @babel, it's 153. They all live in the same Github repo, since who would want to manage that many packages. The second biggest offender in the ecosystem has a whole order of magnitude less packages than that. Babel is the #1 cause for the JS ecosystem being the "royal shitshow" you and other people claim it to be.