> Yarn v2 is backwards compatible though. You just need to use the node_modules "linker" (not the default one) and it's ready to go. Last I checked, not quite.

> Yarn v2 is backwards compatible though. You just need to use the node_modules "linker" (not the default one) and it's ready to go. Last I checked, not quite. Yarn 2+ patches some dependencies to support PnP, even if you don’t use PnP. I discovered this while trying out both Yarn 2 and a pre-release version of TypeScript which failed to install—because the patch for it wasn’t available for that pre-release. I would have thought using node_modules would bypass that patching logic, but no such luck.