Half a decade ago anything that needed Node packages - even just a Gulp build system - would wind up constructing extremely deep directory trees that Explorer w

Half a decade ago anything that needed Node packages - even just a Gulp build system - would wind up constructing extremely deep directory trees that Explorer would choke on. So you would npm install the project, realize you needed a different version of something, try to delete node_modules, and fail horribly with a bunch of long path errors.