How do you not feel embarrassed using such low quality insults..?

It was just a bad joke, but in all seriousness, that was a big wake up call for a lot of people about the tangled web of npm dependencies.

Disagree, it was mainly a wake up call that npm shouldn't allow package deletion, a policy they changed as a result.

Every other 'these kids and their dependencies' opinion over the left-pad incident was highly subjective.