To be fair republishing would have been really quick and saw the issue occur again which may have helped diagnose the issue. Unfortunately no one ever states ho

To be fair republishing would have been really quick and saw the issue occur again which may have helped diagnose the issue. Unfortunately no one ever states how it was published or what versions / systems were used. node has had multiple different issues with running and doing things properly on Windows over the various releases; if it was stated earlier that Windows was used to publish I think people would have immediately started looking at that (I know I would have; anytime a friend of mine has an issue with node or npm that's the first thing I ask). I know macOS is a popular system to do node development on but the node folks, at least seem to, forget Windows exists. Also to be fair, a lot of them looked like complete assholes