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it ain't much but it's honest work

Unfortunately... 🙃

And this is all measured with pnpm, which dedupes dependencies more aggressively... Both these numbers are much worse with npm 🙈.

Any particular dep that needs to be worked on here for the biggest wins? When I last checked, it was a mix of different ones that were part of @netlify/dev

2. The `@netlify/zip-it-and-ship-it` package, responsible for packaging Netlify Functions, supports multiple bundlers. We're working on removing an old legacy bundler. Will save 34 total deps, 32MB. (Would be cool to drop esbuild too...)

3. `@netlify/build` uses ts-node and typescript for very specific uses that don't justify that weight and can use simpler libs. Will save 14 total deps, 25MB. 4. `@netlify/otel` is pulled in but isn't exercised in CLI at all (only in the Netlify build system). Oop. Will save 38 total deps, 53MB.

Other low-hanging fruit that aren't Netlify's own problems: 5. inquirer machinery pulls in 58 total deps and 36MB. Absolutely ridiculous. Clack is 6 deps and 200KB. 6. @octokit/rest to make a couple GH API calls. Nah. Will save 20 total deps, 19MB. Then I think it's a long tail of improvements...