One major reason I still haven't switched away from Node and NPM is major stability and support, pretty much everywhere, e.g. full automatic VS Code support. Plus, even if it's ever so slowly, Node.js is legitimately keeping up to date with the latest ES features and always improving its stdlib, and V8 is still the king of performance and likely to remain so, unless, say, a court were to split up Chrome from Google funding by monopoly laws. That said, Node progress is slow. I'm not entirely sure why. I'd be glad to get paid to help make Node.js better if that were a job. And I'm still waiting on #57696 to avoid using async in a few places that I otherwise wouldn't need to.