I think the parent was suggesting comparing and contrasting the glob dependency in rust, and npm. The one off isn't useful, but picking ten random, but heavily used packages probably is. The parent didn't really mention what the node version looked like though.

The npm glob package has 6 dependencies (those dependencies have 3+ dependencies, those sub dependencies have 6+ dependencies, ...)

As you point out the rust crate is from the official repo, so while it's not part of the standard library, it is maintained by the language maintenance organization.

Maybe that could make it a bad example, but the npm one is maintained by the inventor of npm, and describes him self as "I wrote npm and a pretty considerable portion of other node related JavaScript that you might use.", so I would say that makes it a great example because the people who I would expect care the most about the language are the package maintainers of these packages, and are (hopefully) implementing what they think are the best practices for the languages, and the eco-systems.