After reading. For a person that calls out how people are not smart the author takes quite of mental shortcuts to make his point work.
NPM downloads are not equal to amount of projects as people plug in their CI/CD to download package on each build.
Then assuming just by sheer number that there must be something critical in the set or at least super important. Without putting effort to track at least one in some way.
That’s at least lazy especially if you call people „smart”. Then throw up some numbers thinking you’re the smart one.