Like I mentioned in my comment I'm not worried yet but if the node team iterates at this pace with breaking changes than I worry as node is essentially the defa

Like I mentioned in my comment I'm not worried yet but if the node team iterates at this pace with breaking changes than I worry as node is essentially the defacto standard library for JavaScript when interacting with a system (since the real EMCAScript standard lacks interacting with file systems, http, etc). How many languages do you know that have standard libraries that iterate breaking changes frequently? Probably almost none that are mainstream. It's not really anything against npm itself and if the node team doesn't do this with high frequency then it won't be an issue. The 5.x coming so soon after 4.x was just jarring and everyone is speculating how frequently they're going to make breaking changes.