[TeMPOraL]

> The JS ecosystem just suffers disproportionately from this kind of thing because so many packages in npm are written by relatively new developers.

I think it also suffers because it grew in the age of Internet and Open Source, which made the problem compounding. Programmers write a lot of stupid code when learning, it's part of the process - but it used to be that the stupidity was constrained to your machine and maybe a few poor souls who ended up reading or using your code. In JS ecosystem, all that stupidity gets published, and ends up worming its way, through dependency chains, into everything.