I think the thinking behind dropping the support is something like this:<p>I use browserify&#x2F;webpack&#x2F;node and npm is great. I wish more libs that I use were also on npm so that I wouldnt have to fork&#x2F;shim them. How can I force other people to use npm? Maybe  if I drop bower support for my awesome lib that everyone uses,  other libs will follow suit, or perhaps the users will see the light and stop using bower because it sucks.