Comment by resonious

I agree with you and follow the same principles myself, but JavaScript already has HTTP, and yet everyone still uses Axios. So the problem isn't that JS doesn't have batteries, it's that people don't want to use them for some reason.

I'm guessing it's similar to the tragedy of the commons phenomenon. When things are freely available people tend to overuse or carelessly use them. NPM is just too easy to use. If a package offers a 1% ergonomics increase over a builtin function, many folks will just go for it because it costs them nothing (well, it seems to cost them nothing).