Do you mean your package.json literally has no dependencies declared (or you don't even have package.json)? If so, you're not using frontend tooling like 98% of development teams.
I don't have a package.json. I don't use npm. But I do use React. Yes, I am not like [insert scientifically determined very very high percentage] of teams out there — but that's exactly my point. There are ways to do frontend development without the treadmill.
Thing is, we are the reason for the treadmill being there: we love the new shiny, we call software that is stable "dead", we actively mock software that doesn't have a lot of churn as "not being developed". So I guess we deserve what we get.
