As usual, everyone here will start their "I'm better than this" comments.

If you've ever used a code dependency, you are a target for malicious code. That's just how it is.

In this case, using small packages like this helps in...

1. Reliability - these packages are typically 100% unit tested

2. Convenience

3. Reduce codebase size. I can't imagine having to copy paste every little small function into a mega utils file.