Right, I get that. I was just making a joke because I really dislike the micro-dependency approach. Honestly bothers me more in Rust then JavaScript, but that's probably just because I'm not a web dev.

From my buddies who have worked in JS my understanding is that a lot of it is rooted in JavaScript having a really shitty standard library for a long time. So that lead to a culture of code sharing early on since everyone was rewriting the same utilities and what not. Which evolved into the package management ecosystem over time.

Why that came about in something like JavaScript but not C, which also obviously has a really small std is super interesting. My only guess is that JavaScript came up in the internet when package managers started to take on a new meaning, and web dev is more relavent to a broader range of (nontech) companies and they're more likely to put a huge focus on quality over quantity.