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> It is noticable again and again that devs publishing to npm are not up to snuff, I wish I knew why, as this does not happen with other dynamic languages/their code repos.

It absolutely does happen with other languages. It just happens in Node with greater volume because of the greater volume of programmers, low barriers to entry for JavaScript, lack of a rich standard library, the convergence of server focused coders and frontend coders, and lack of consensus around best practices and frameworks for applications.

Kind of the way it's been possible to write decent code in PHP since version 5. Yet the overall ecosystem is still mostly bad.

Lots of need to fashion very basic tools + high volume of inexperience + democracy = A package repo full of nonsense where it's difficult to find the diamonds in the rough.