React and react-dom are peer dependencies (npmgraph lists them but doesn't graph them visually). The actual full installation command is: `npm install next@latest react@latest react-dom@latest`[1]. Even if you include react and react-dom, the dependency graph still looks tolerable to me: https://npmgraph.js.org/?q=next%4014.2.13%2C+react%4018.3.1%...

[1] https://nextjs.org/docs/getting-started/installation#manual-...