A more moderate recommendation would be a request to audit your dependencies and keep the transitive dependency bloat to a minimum.

Ideally libraries do have dependencies (you don't want every author re-rolling filesystem, network, crypto, etc.). Transitive dependencies should look like the bedrock packages for the language: well-supported, well-vetted, and have lots of eyeballs on them.

You don't need left-pad, but you probably don't want your own implementation of byteorder.