I'm of the opinion that most of lodash should just be incorporated into vanilla javascript, as part of its standard library. It could be done similarly to Python (or any language, really), and just group each collection of functions by usage (like itertools in Python groups tools for iteration).
Once people stop feeling the need to reach for third-party packages to accomplish day-to-day tasks maybe there'll be more freedom to move away from the way npm is the way it is today.
Once people stop feeling the need to reach for third-party packages to accomplish day-to-day tasks maybe there'll be more freedom to move away from the way npm is the way it is today.