You know how many packages out there are better than request? Now compare all the work those great developers did, gave their souls for what? 50 stars at GitHub? Cmon, let's face the real problem here which is the balance between good code versus popular code. I'm speaking behalf of every great developer out there that spends hundreds of time and his project got faded inconspicuously. I have seen hardcore projects that every tech company could have envied get like 50 dollars of donations and projects that were made in one day, get thousands.