Anything that pulled in chalk. You need a very good reason to emit escape sequences. The whole npm (and rust, python,..) ecosystem assumes that if it’s a tty, then it’s a full blown xterm-256color terminal. And then you need to pipe to cat or less to have sensible output.

So if you’re adding chalk, that generally means you don’t know jack about terminals.

Some people appreciate it when terminal output is easier to read.

If chalk emits sequences that aren't supported by your terminal, then that's a deficiency in chalk, not the programs that wanted to produce colored output. It's easier to fix chalk than to fix 50,000 separate would-be dependents of chalk.

I appreciate your frustration but this isn't an answer to the question. The question is about implementing the same feature in two different ways, dependency or internal code. Whether a feature should be added is a different question.