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Say what you want about the stability of the npm ecosystem, but if this were JS, a new SemVer patch release could be cut, and it would be fixed in thousands of code bases essentially instantly.

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and if they get pissed, they can also remove the package and break thousands of code bases essentially instantly.

NPM hasn't allowed unpublishing packages for years.

And then thousands of scripts that parse the old output would start to fail. :-)

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