The (terrible) solution that we are seeing now is generative AI. Instead of importing a library, you ask an AI to write the code for you, the AI most likely has

The (terrible) solution that we are seeing now is generative AI. Instead of importing a library, you ask an AI to write the code for you, the AI most likely has ingested a library that implements the features you need and will essentially copy-paste that part into your code, transforming it so that it matches the rest of your code. I believe that it causes more problems than it solves, but it can be a solution to the problem of adding thousands of lines of code of dependency when you could write a 10-line function yourself. Of course, the proper thing to do is not to be the wrong kind of lazy and to understand what you are doing. I say the wrong kind of lazy because there is a right kind of lazy, and it is about not doing things you don't need to, as opposed to doing them poorly.