There's a difference between "I need to connect to the database and I need to parse json, so I need two commonly used libs for those two things" and whatever np

There's a difference between "I need to connect to the database and I need to parse json, so I need two commonly used libs for those two things" and whatever npm is doing, and to some extent cargo or popular java frameworks are doing. Building everything from scratch is insane, but so's uncritically growing a dependency jungle