I don't know if it is still as fragile as you remember but if you just never update your package-lock then it is super stable as you (transitive) dependencies n

I don't know if it is still as fragile as you remember but if you just never update your package-lock then it is super stable as you (transitive) dependencies never change. The non-trivial exception being if some dependecy was downloading resources on the fly (maybe like a browser compat list) or calling system libraries (eg running shell commands)