I feel strongly about this but figured it would be a decent exercise to challenge my assumptions? I've been doing this for a while and with the exception of a l

I feel strongly about this but figured it would be a decent exercise to challenge my assumptions? I've been doing this for a while and with the exception of a limited number of high quality packages I generally write a lot of my own utilities because in my opinion "the juice isn't worth the squeeze" from a lot of open source options. Obv The time trade off is different now that I have decent experience and with the advent of ChatGPT From what I can tell the research tends to agree with me: -https://www.researchgate.net/publication/221555430_An_empirical_study_of_build_maintenance_effort - https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.04936 It appears that there is a substantial overhead that comes with `npm install`ing away your problems. I would love to see other research if anyone has some... the quick ~5 studies I checked didn't seem to answer the question 100% but are good enough to confirm my thoughts.