[mawburn]

> 1. Easier distribution (like I said, just copy a binary)

I'm not sure how your system is setup, but most of us already have npm installed and using a package manager is about as simple as it gets to distribute tools. Since it's on npm you don't have to worry about apt, brew, or yum distributions. Just the one that is already installed on everyone's machine who will probably be using this, regardless of stack or OS.

Your other 2 points are moot. You don't get to pick the tools of other projects.