You&#x27;re building a straw-man there. A standard library can <i>certainly</i> be made to be modular and versioned. It doesn&#x27;t <i>have to be</i> bloated for any reason whatsoever. This is Javascript - you can chop up your scripts however you want.<p>The problem with mixing and matching libs is that no two JS devs do it the same. Some will even re-build the same lib that has already been built by hundreds of JS devs because NIH.