- the pervasiveness of left-pad style packages - npm's governance - the community's perspective and culture Also the low-effort nature of javascript language i

- the pervasiveness of left-pad style packages - npm's governance - the community's perspective and culture Also the low-effort nature of javascript language itself - no strong typing, able to rip out or replace foreign methods, even redefine standard behavior, no private methods, ... if somebody enjoys living in such environment, then they are more likely to also be ok with unmaintained packages, npm bumping your package versions without asking, npm allowing anyone to re-take a package name after it was deleted, developers transferring ownership without as much as googling for the username... but hey, as long as they have cool emoji icons...