In other contexts, the best ways to deal with trade-offs use randomness. Perhaps this sort of stunt would cause less damage if npm just randomly chose which ver

In other contexts, the best ways to deal with trade-offs use randomness. Perhaps this sort of stunt would cause less damage if npm just randomly chose which versions to use. To avoid churn, the random choices could be stored in lockfiles. The point would be that not everyone is using the newest version of any particular package.