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Yes, there's definitely a financial gain aspect here. Tidelift provides $50/month for each of these packages. https://tidelift.com/lifter/search/npm/has-symbols

The incentives are pretty clear: more packages, more money.

Yes.

https://github.com/A11yance/axobject-query/pull/354

https://github.com/A11yance/aria-query/pull/497

I've seen people brag about it in their resumes, so I assume it helps them find (better paying?) work.

I'm completely apathetic about spicy autocomplete for coding tasks and even I wonder which terrible code would be worse.

The guy who wrote is even/odd was for ages using a specifically obscure method that made it slower than %2===0 because js engines were optimising that but not his arcane bullshit.