As someone who worked with java for more than a decade before touching the js world, the degree to which npm has been hacked together without any of study prior

As someone who worked with java for more than a decade before touching the js world, the degree to which npm has been hacked together without any of study prior art is extremely irritating. If you must build something from scratch at least invent some new problems instead of just re-discovering solved ones. The very existence of package-lock grinds my gears and that's before it starts flip flopping because someone mistook URLs for URIs. Of course that only exists because ranged dependencies are a terrible idea, and that's before anybody even mentions things like namespaces or classifiers. No maven wasn't perfection, and it could be (and has been) improved on - but npm doesn't even get into spitting distance.