A few days ago I opened an old project and realized half the dependencies were there because "future me might need them."
Turns out:

• I wasn't using most of them
• a few were doing almost the same thing
• one package existed just to format dates

After removing 14 packages:

• build got faster
• node_modules stopped looking cursed
• project became way easier to maintain

I think a lot of side projects slowly turn into dependency collections without us noticing