As someone who's done a ton of JS/TS development, for browsers and Node, I thought the principle the entire ecosystem was based on was up-to-the-minute crowdsourcing of not only a standard lib, but also 90% of your basic tools and about half of what ought to be language features. Not relying on automated systems to cancel out the mistakes of automated systems.
As someone who spent two weeks trying to get a Typescript project working under Webpack when migrating to Vue 3, by stitching together a web of gratuitous tooling and transpilers that ultimately did not work (I went with Vite and it was all working in 2 hours)...
Also, I just checked out an old Flask/Python project from 7 years ago, updated it to use Poetry dependency management, and it all still works. A JS project that is 7 months old and unmaintained would be a dumpster fire.
Downvote away. You know who you are.