As long as Matz is involved, I have a lot of faith things will get better, not worse, unless you have some strong indication of otherwise. If anything, because things will be nicer.
NPM was a company and it was acquired and it was voluntary. I don't think you can compare it to this situation - this is more of a messy situation with everything open source collaborations, rather than having clear ownership in a single entity:
https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/npm-is-joinin...
Or are you referring to the pre-2014 situation where NPM wasn't VC Funded, but in a more nebulous state? It didn't last that long.
Where is the theft? The projects were open source, they are still open source.
The name is not for the taking. You can download the code, modify and release it, but you can't just claim ownership over a product.