> people you're trying to sell a shovel to don't want to dig.

That's exactly where a tool like Packj can help. It can cut the digging time down significantly. Auditing hundreds of direct/transitive dependencies manually is impractical, but Packj can quickly point out a "risky" behavior (file and line number). Using obfuscation to hide malicious code itself is a suspicious behavior, which is flagged. After all, we have to start somewhere.