it was a deliberate decision from the Node foundation to let the "ecosystem flourish". If they built-in those tools there would be a lot less evolution on what

it was a deliberate decision from the Node foundation to let the "ecosystem flourish". If they built-in those tools there would be a lot less evolution on what the tools could do. Arguably this was a good decision in ~2010, but today it makes much less sense, tools haven't been evolving as fast anymore in the JS ecosystem and people seem to be standardising more and more on what works and what doesn't.