FWIW: npm may be bundled with node, but node is not reliant on it. All npm does is put libraries in `node_modules` for node to require them. Node does not need

FWIW: npm may be bundled with node, but node is not reliant on it. All npm does is put libraries in `node_modules` for node to require them. Node does not need npm to run, and node does not make npm a dependency. This is akin to PHP deciding to bundle composer with it, just because it's the defacto package manager for PHP.