There is an enormous difference between 2 large packages and 20 small ones. I can see the main authors more clearly, and not have to worry about 20 different packages being compromised.
Your statement makes no sense. More packages does not, in any way, shape, or form, correlate to “better quality”. The sole thing it shows is that the author pulled in more packages. That’s it. Whether it’s good or bad or secure or not secure is only determined by analysis. The author could easily have been super lazy and pulled in 18 small packages instead of writing small helper functions manually, etc.
There is no defensible argument for more packages and bloat. None. As I said above, the core lib should focus on providing functionality so pulling in a fancy spinner library means you pull in ONE library, not 20.
