He implied that we all heard of it, but it’s besides the point I was trying to make — rather than starting an OSS project in the hopes some FAANG company may sponsor it, it may very well be a project started by such a company instead. Ie its not likely something you can “grow” a project into.

I'm now imagining a stream of hysterical entitled feature request demands from users of leftpad.js...

"This dumb library doesn't left pad correctly when I'm standing on my head. FIX THIS IMMEDIATELY or I'll change to an alternative library and leave a 1 star Yelp review! What kind of clueless amateurs are you? You call yourself 'developers'???"