Having worked in the JS ecosystem for far too long now it's enormously satisfying to remove these dependencies. First it was direct DOM manipulation without jQuery getting in the way, now it's direct JS calls without a utility library getting in the way. The ecosystem really has come a long way.

It's also worth noting that lodash lets you import individual functions, e.g.

import throttle from 'lodash/throttle'

so even when you do need a utility function you can avoid pulling the entire library into your code.