Think of the complexity involved, think of having to fix bugs because something went wrong. Such effort would be better spent preparing npm/node for a future w

Think of the complexity involved, think of having to fix bugs because something went wrong. Such effort would be better spent preparing npm/node for a future where packages with a lower-bound npm version constraint can be compressed with zstd or similar. Every feature you add to a program is complexity, you need to really decide if you want it.