I have one Gatsby site left that I haven't touched in years, I doubt it will get past npm install.

I develop in Node and Sveltekit regularly and the chances that on any given day my flow might be crushed by random madness is unacceptably high.

every time i run npm install i am prepared to embark on a bunch of side missions.

Not only this. Try to change the app two years later. Dependencies gone, wrong NPM version, Webpack config depricated and what not.That's why I like to use vanilla JS as much as possible. It will be maintainable years later.