You’re not old and cranky. Just (minimally base line) responsible.
Many frontend projects have 100s of deps, and while that’s a separate problem, imagine if a large fraction of them spammed bandwidth and console output with this.
The dependencies usually have dependencies and then... well it's dependencies all the way down in the JS world. 100s is sadly normal for large proects in my limited experience.
Many frontend projects have 100s of deps, and while that’s a separate problem, imagine if a large fraction of them spammed bandwidth and console output with this.