> There's clearly a lot of highly creative people out there that can see problems / needs but that have probably come more from a design background rather than

> There's clearly a lot of highly creative people out there that can see problems / needs but that have probably come more from a design background rather than a programming / engineering background that may not see the same issues with the node / JavaScript ecosystem that programmers or operational engineers may. > after significant experience node, JavaScript and npm Sorry, but I'm having a really hard time reconciling these two points in your post. You have significant experience with node and yet think that node users "probably come more from a design background"? As someone who actually does have significant experience, it's pretty obvious to me that some of the most solid engineers (many from engineering backgrounds) and most prolific OSS heroes today are working on node and contributing packages to npm. Do you really think all the big companies that adopted node just accidentally hired a bunch of designer-types for their engineering positions instead of vetting that they were solid engineers that, yes, liked and vetted node?