alt Hacker NewsZed is a no go in my book until they learn to respect their users and stop installing third party software* without asking. Completely unacceptable practice, and their reason of "most people will want LSPs to be there without effort" doesn't cut it.
* nodejs specifically, but it wouldn't be ok no matter what the software was. It's my computer, not yours, don't download and run stuff without getting permission.
I get where you're coming from.
But what percentage of users of a document editor would say "don't install pdf stuff on my computer without asking, I don't need to export to pdf"
Installing dependencies for popular features is very much the norm. It's mainstream software.
The same complaint would be made for VSCode and Jetbrains - the most popular IDEs