I'm not sure why this was downvoted, but I think the answer is basically: yes, but only by making a lot of breaking changes. Which sort of leads you to Deno any

I'm not sure why this was downvoted, but I think the answer is basically: yes, but only by making a lot of breaking changes. Which sort of leads you to Deno anyway. My take is that we probably won't see a wholesale change to the way things like file/network access works, package manager centralization, etc. anytime soon.