I've been maintaining a Node.js app for about five years and almost all dependencies have been "vendored"/locked with forked libraries because some of the dependencies have been abandoned, and some have switched owners where the new owner spend their days adding bugs to perfectly working code due to "syntax modernization", or where the maintainer didn't accept the pull request for various reasons. Software collaboration is not that easy, especially if it's done by people in their (very little) spare time.
> Software collaboration is not that easy, especially if it's done by people in their (very little) spare time.
This is true, but somehow the Node ecosystem has managed to do it worse than those that came before it.
At the risk of sounding elitist, I submit that this phenomenon is due to a flood of novice developers that are entering the industry via six week "learn to code" boot camps.
