The one thing I would add is the JavaScript standard library is deserving of some blame for the micro-library problem. Being bundled with the browser or server side in node doubling the size of the standard library to avoid situations like the left pad library being pulled from npm seems like a no brainer type of decision. ES2017 adds the padEnd and padStart functions is a step in the right direction. There is movement in the right direction but I would like to see the JS standard library at a minimum match the ruby standard library and eliminate a bunch of the micro dependencies that creep into libraries.