I’ve found that certain libraries i need to compile come with their own libraries and npm packaged and i end up with several hundred mb of bloat and 12 versions of npm and libraries just to try to install some package.
Installing a lot of things from github can be more of a pain than it’s worth.
Especially the first time. When you don’t know that there are now different npm instances on your system and you try to install or update something and you affect your entire system instead of the package directory.