Sorry I wasn't clear, I'm not making an argument for or against npm, only responding to the analogy. But I wouldn't consider "we're already using X" to be suff

Sorry I wasn't clear, I'm not making an argument for or against npm, only responding to the analogy. But I wouldn't consider "we're already using X" to be sufficient reason to use X for something it wasn't designed around. Again, these choices are sticky and tend to be vulnerable to scope creep. I'd call it a textbook case of technical debt, and it's ok to point that out. They might have forestalled the criticism by acknowledging that, but they didn't.