Why are you complaining that a project you do not care about is using 13 dependencies, all of which, to your knowledge, are absolutely essential for the functionality?
>There is a project that's 500kb in code with 120 dependencies
And therefore some project using 13 dependencies is doing it wrong? What are you on about. Obviously there is an enormous abuse of dependencies in the JS ecosystem, who cares?
Their original complaint was about the project taking 20GB of disk space to compile.
Also they did point out that the parser depends on a serialisation library, so you're also mistaken about parent thinking the dependencies are necessary.
On another note, this pervasive kind of passive aggressive, hand-wavy, tribalistic, blind defense of certain technologies speak volumes about their audiences.
>There is a project that's 500kb in code with 120 dependencies
And therefore some project using 13 dependencies is doing it wrong? What are you on about. Obviously there is an enormous abuse of dependencies in the JS ecosystem, who cares?