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The nodejs modules are what makes nodejs great. It encourage sharing code and modularization without complexity.

What do you dislike about ESM in comparison?

ESM had no implementation, and there where already a unofficial standard. Why did ESM land in ES2015 ? Three years later it still got issues and implementation is experimental at best.

They are supported by browsers for about two years now: https://jakearchibald.com/2017/es-modules-in-browsers/

But why is nobody using that?

Specifically, I would think 99% if stuff being shipped today is bundled with tools like webpack.

Because it lacks support for bare specifiers and package lookup. There’s also no dead code elimination or code splitting.

These are still node modules, and they're still on npm. They just use ESM syntax as well as CommonJS.

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