I don't know how that problems is going away. Javascript doesn't have a great standard library and it's hard to impose restrictions on which packages/features/functionalities should be the "defacto" ones.
The strength of JavaScript is also the problem: it's really easy to create and distribute really flexible and dynamic code. This encourages a massive, vibrant ecosystem of packages which are extremely modular and flexible, and often tiny. So you end up building sandcastles out of thousands of grains of sand instead of LEGO houses.
What we probably need to do is walk that back a bit at a cultural level, and make our libraries just a bit more cohesive and self-contained. There are a few libraries like Lodash and Ramada that aim to be general-purpose toolkits, and Vue and Angular are good examples of reactive libraries that come with their own state management, plus some other stuff. Of course, the latter probably (I'm not actually positive) carry their own big lists of npm dependencies.
