&gt; Having lots of packages isn&#x27;t bad for the ecosystem, it makes Node and npm unique and amazing. But picking bad npm modules, which is entirely avoidable, is bad for your project - that&#x27;s all I meant.<p>Having an ecosystem where, say, 70% of the choices I make can be &#x27;bad&#x27; is probably not a great ecosystem.  I hope it shakes out in the next year or so and there&#x27;s less choice.  There&#x27;s enough choices I have to make in my own application layer - having to make X more choices about code I didn&#x27;t write and how all those pieces fit together (and how they&#x27;ll be maintained going forward) just doesn&#x27;t feel like  a good long-term platform.  But... people have the &#x27;choice&#x27; to use it if they want ;)