Comment by tentacleuno

You don't really need more packages. There's definitely a culture of creating ridiculously small packages, though.

If you spend enough time in the ecosystem, you'll begin to realise that a select few are very well known for doing this; one in particular made a package for every ANSI terminal colour.

left-pad (and quite a few incidents afterwards) were definitely wakeup calls, and I like to think we've listened in some ways.