Also, I coud imagine Rust's type-system raises the bar of dependencies that can be mangaged before everything breaks down. So a lib with 100 deps in NPM isn't the same as a lib with 100 deps in Cargo.
Yes but people often throw out empty criticism without offering solutions or alternatives and it gets annoying after a while and is just a complaint rather than a healthy critique. As programmers we've heard them all before I guarantee it, so why add another one to the pile?