Maybe this is why I'm a little skeptical of the whole "move everything to Rust/Zig/Go/etc" movement in the JS ecosystem. I like JavaScript, I understand JavaScript. If I have to debug some JS tool, I'm well-equipped. Whereas if I have to dip down into some weird error like "libfoo.so.42: cannot open shared object file" then I know I'm gonna get lost.
Plus I don't think we've come close to exhausting all the ways to optimize JS deps: https://marvinh.dev/blog/speeding-up-javascript-ecosystem/