The Importance of Culture in the Ecosystem

Babel depends on left pad because you made a PR to add your line numbers package, which depended on left pad. You see other people who were prominent in the community doing the same thing and not only publishing PRs that would move code that had been vented out into separate packages. So from a technical perspective, what both of you could have done is just be like, let's just vendor this. And so that's what a lot of people do.