Ask HN: Why does React need 1484 dependencies by default?

Run

    npx create-react-app my-app

and watch how it says

    added 1484 packages in 1m

How in the world can this number of dependencies be considered sane and normal, and most of all, necessary?

What's more is that this barebone source code already takes up 235 MB (!)

What the ...? Is this what it takes to display some rectangles and glyphs in a browser?