Here’s the rub I joined npm about a little over a year ago, and never really had to deal with backporting. npm 11 was pretty well established at that point, and any dealings with npm 10 were really just dependency updates. As we gear up for npm 12, I learned that we’ll have to do quite a bit of backporting. In npm-land, that means manually cherry picking or creating commits and creating a duplicate PR, but against the other supported branches. I had little interest in doing that by hand. ...

