[throwitaway1123]

> After reading the "Why JSR?" article I still don't understand why this exists

The cynical answer: they realized it's actually advantageous to have a centralized package registry instead of importing from random urls, and as a for-profit VC backed company they'd rather not have their entire ecosystem depend on the Microsoft-owned NPM.

The optimistic answer: having a second registry makes the entire JS/TS ecosystem less fragile by not having a single point of failure.