[ChocolateGod]

> i love node, but some of the packages in the ecosystem really let it down, and it means node devs get a bad wrap.

I think you'll find that for any environment that promotes package use and has a large following, I don't think its down to inheritably down to something node is doing wrong.

> so i've never had the need to worry about things like this before, it's something i've noted for the future, so i hope that makes things a little more understandable.

part of the reason I left Twitter (or X now?), Mastodon, Threads etc. The platforms promote people posting things without thinking them through first and you never know what's going to come bite you in the arse later.