> Throughout this whole thread are examples where these one or two line "modules" have poor runtime performance, miss key cases in the one single thing they claim to do, and in the very worst cases, those small "modules" themselves are depending on many more "modules".
Where? I've only seen the exact opposite: folk who don't believe in package management write their own naive 'reinvent the wheel functions' with those issues. Nobody I can see is quoting actual npm modules.