Indeed, in my opinion it is the best way to finish in a cluster mess like the nodejs/npm ecosystem... And a very real issue is that young developers don't know

Indeed, in my opinion it is the best way to finish in a cluster mess like the nodejs/npm ecosystem... And a very real issue is that young developers don't know anymore how to develop by limiting dependencies to the strict minimum. You have some projects with hundreds of dependencies without a real reason than lazyness or always using the new shiny thing.