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Because node is a comedy. It’s intentionally making a very easy problem into a Rube Goldberg machine.

The worst thing is that this already happened in January 2023. NPM again showing that only the brightest of the brightest are working on this ecosystem o7

As far as we know, NPM's solution was to flag the organization (making the links to the issues within the article useless) and to remove the packages without any policy change.

They won't learn anything from this, they'll blame the authors for "using NPM wrong" just like the dogpiling comments were on the everything repo before mass flagging by the same people booted it off GitHub.

We'll see if there is any real policy change. I hope there is, at the very least to avoid another instance of this mistake, but also to prevent genuine targeted abuse of this policy failure.

For now, NPM is slowly taking all the packages down, and GitHub has forcefully made the org private: https://imgur.com/a/WuSpBQi