I'd say it's lack of barriers to entry, boot camp ninjas that maintain dozens of packages. The fact that some newbie would upload is-odd[1] to npm doesn't surp

I'd say it's lack of barriers to entry, boot camp ninjas that maintain dozens of packages. The fact that some newbie would upload is-odd[1] to npm doesn't surprise me. The fact that it has half a million weekly downloads - it's blind leading the blind. And framework complexity - I find that consistent with mid level programmers being fascinated by complex solutions and top scale teams needing to deal with the pile of shit they are building on (DOM/JS) [1] https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-odd https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-odd