I helped deprecate the npm #request package, one is nodejs’s biggest piles of unmaintained technical debt. It made room for undici which was so good it got into core.
I didn’t write request, so I didn’t have the attachment to it. (I did try for a cleaned up final version) So it was much easier to kill it.
There’s also a maintained fork of it by a company that’s cool too.
But I’m glad we didn’t hand over the package to randos, or find sponsors or anything like that. It was time to move on.
janl