Comment by mangecoeur

And to add to the mess, until npm introduced deduplication every dependency recursively included it's own dependencies as sub folders, so you get a bajillion tiny dependencies over and over (and sometimes with different versions to boot).

Frankly some of the comments I'm seeing really do reinforce his point: people really don't know how to program. I suspect this is it the flipside of Javascript being popular and accessible - people can churn out products without really knowing what they are doing...