&gt; That&#x27;s not even half a year ago. The stable shelf life of software worth mentioning is longer than that, don&#x27;t you think?<p>I can see that you haven&#x27;t spent much time in the JavaScript ecosystem.  And forget latest commit, if a JS project wasn&#x27;t <i>started</i> in the last half year, it&#x27;s already getting long in the tooth.  After a half year, trendy devs will already start moving on to the next great framework and package manager.