This is exactly why I don't understand why it is called "package management." What good is NPM if you just need to deploy tarballs anyway? It's good for bloat

This is exactly why I don't understand why it is called "package management." What good is NPM if you just need to deploy tarballs anyway? It's good for bloating dependencies and installing 10 of the same library. It completely punts on actually managing packages, by just copying everything -- recursively.