There's a long-running problem where more smaller dependencies is actually better but it intuitively *feels* worse to a lot of people, and I wonder whether anyone is working on resolving that UX problem
@joepie91 imo there are some real negative aspects to having lots of small dependencies if you don't have good tooling, and (the ecosystems around) functional package managers/build systems such as guix and nix are working to combat that
@pinoaffe While technically true, this isn't what people are actually complaining about, and these complaints are most frequent in the context of JS - which *does* have that tooling.
It's purely the "oh no the dependency count is so high" that sets people off, no further reasoning beyond some vague assumptions about how that means more risk (that they cannot substantiate).
