No, you're not missing anything, besides that most people who do depend on NPM these days, do in fact run their own proxies as the registry does down so often.

No, you're not missing anything, besides that most people who do depend on NPM these days, do in fact run their own proxies as the registry does down so often. Verdaccio is the one I see being used in the wild most often. https://verdaccio.org/ https://verdaccio.org/