NPM has been tightening up its publish and unpublish rules for over half a decade. https://thenewstack.io/the-kik-kerfuffle/ https://thenewstack.io/the-kik-ker

NPM has been tightening up its publish and unpublish rules for over half a decade. https://thenewstack.io/the-kik-kerfuffle/ https://thenewstack.io/the-kik-kerfuffle/ That GitHub is now the owner of NPM doesn't change that policy and maturing of the environment. https://blog.npmjs.org/post/141577284765/kik-left-pad-and-npm https://blog.npmjs.org/post/141577284765/kik-left-pad-and-np... > We dropped the ball in not protecting you from a disruption caused by unrestricted unpublishing. We’re addressing this with technical and policy changes.