He doesn't care if anyone takes over the leftpad module. He unpublished leftpad Someone else republishes leftpad as a new owner Since npm won't allow you to

He doesn't care if anyone takes over the leftpad module. He unpublished leftpad Someone else republishes leftpad as a new owner Since npm won't allow you to publish old versions, stuff is still broken since the depended on files have a hard dependency on v0.0.3 npm (the company) forces a republish on v0.0.3 or I guess an ununpublish.