Too Long; Didn't Read
I was never really concerned about the size of <code class="markup--code markup--p-code">node_modules</code> — my thinking was that you should not care too much about the tools you need to do the job. If you need a 20 kg hammer to drive a nail, you just take it. The same story with the <code class="markup--code markup--p-code">node_modules</code>, it may weight a few kilobytes or a few megabytes because our imaginary hammer comes with a set of heavy nails, right? Well, maybe, in theory.