amen. I rolled a angular app 3 years ago, and now most of the libs i used are unsupported, and impossible to upgrade anything cause of dependency hell.

now we dont use yeoman to create react apps, and we have a thousand start kits that get u off the ground. your node_modules directory probably has 30k+ plus files before a single line of your app is written. yarn

just imagine ur an embedded programmer, and you boss asks u to write a hello world for the nexet device, and u come back with a react app with 30,000 dependencies to get the job done. then u find a bug, which fb just fixed in the next release. But u cant upgrade to the latest version, because that conflicts with library that is used by a 3rd level dep, that is used to add padding to a smiley somewhere.