Everybody knows npm is a gaping security issue waiting to happen. Repeatedly.
It’s convenient, so it’s popular.
Many people also don’t vendor their own dependencies, which would slow down the spread at the price of not being instantly up to date.
npm sold it really hard that you could rely on them and not have to vendor dependencies yourself. If I suggested that a decade ago in Seattle, I would have gotten booed out of the room.
Yet here we are. And this is going to get massively worse, not better.
I mean, I believe you, but the person you are replying to obviously believes that they are similar. Could you explain the significant differences?