Have you heard of the left pad incident?

The problem is not imagined.

Even there the "problem" was left-pad being used by one or two projects used in "everything".

So the problem isn't that everyone is picking up small deps, but that _some_ people who write libs that are very popular are picking up small deps and causing this to happen.

This is different because it doesn't really say that all JS developers are looking to include left-pad. But I _do_ think that lots of library authors are too excited to make these kinds of dep trees