Part of the problem with the JS ecosystem specifically is that, because it is culturally acceptable to have dozens of dependencies even for fairly small librari

Part of the problem with the JS ecosystem specifically is that, because it is culturally acceptable to have dozens of dependencies even for fairly small libraries, eventually you run into a situation where updating that one small library that you need to update requires you to deal with major upgrades for a lot of other stuff that e.g. break your build because they dropped support for your version of Node.js, or migrated entirely to ESM, or ...