The dependency hell of JS is caused by React. It’s an ironic turn because node gained popularity in part because it was one of the first to have a coupled package manager with everyone in contribution, full of a billion packages that follow the unix philosophy of “everything should do one thing, do it will.” Dependency hell would disappear if people stopped popularizing competing swiss army knives, and then trying to mash these swiss army knives together just to improve portfolio.

We’ve gotten to the point where you aren’t considered a real professional unless you start even the smallest projects with maximum technical debt.