Users will continue to trust what comes packages with node. Nothing needs to change from a user's perspective. They will still type npm ... But it will point to

Users will continue to trust what comes packages with node. Nothing needs to change from a user's perspective. They will still type npm ... But it will point to a new infrastructure (and more importantly led by nobody currently leading npm). If node wants to do this, I think they totally can. There just needs to be the will to cut off and blacklist the current npm team.