[lumpypua]

The trouble is that yarn is legitimately better than npm. My life is better as a developer because of yarn.

I'm not claiming that all those transitions were for the best, far from it, but the real question for any language community to answer is: "how much churn is acceptable in the pursuit of better?" JS is an ongoing cultural experiment in seeing what happens when you turn that dial to 11.

[mattmanser]

That's irrelevant in many ways. non-javascript languages deal with this by improving the existing tools.

And realistically speaking, yarn is not a discernable improvement over npm.

The cultural experiment has a huge cost to programmers and it's been an utter disaster. Even PHP has leapfrogged javascript.