No. My complaint is that things never get fixed properly. The complex problems around software distribution (which proper package managers have made a good stab

No. My complaint is that things never get fixed properly. The complex problems around software distribution (which proper package managers have made a good stab at solving for decades) are ignored in favour of steamrollering over the problems with naive solutions and declaring that everything "just works" only for the wheels to come off a few years later running into a dead end which many of us saw from miles off. This is particularly true for package/dependency management, but the attitude is found more broadly. For what it's worth, the javascript world isn't alone here. Python, with its new Pipfile/pipenv system is on its, what, fifth, sixth? stab at solving package management "once and for all" and it's all truly dire and not something I depend on when I have the choice. Nix solves pretty much all of these problems and a few more, but I expect it to be a decade or so before people realize it. I'm not complaining about new things. These aren't new things. They're about a decade behind the curve.