> The easier a library is to use, the more popular it will be You're thinking correctly on principle, but I think this is also the cause of the issue: it's too

> The easier a library is to use, the more popular it will be You're thinking correctly on principle, but I think this is also the cause of the issue: it's too easy to pull in a Node dependency even thoughtlessly, so it's become popular. It would require adding friction to move back from that and render it less easy, which would probably give rise to a new, easy and frictionless solution that ends up in the same place.