The tragedy of running an old Node project

I'm pretty sanguine about languages and frameworks, but I draw the line at node. I have seen so many horrors visited by dependencies, often to do just one thing where 2 or 3 lines of code would do the job anyway.

When I was managing teams, whatever the language, I would ban any new dependencies which I didn't personally agree with. A lack of control just creates a nightmare.

Was that kind of control well-received by your teams? Out of context, it sounds like it would be pretty rough to be an engineer on a team where your manager had sole control over what tools you could use - I suppose it might make sense for junior devs or a very small codebase, but I would caution against taking that stance in a team where you want to facilitate mutual trust