I wish Deno would keep doing what it does best

I just don't think Deno has the sauce anymore. I very begrudgingly migrated my website from Hugo to Astro after years of an anti NodeJS bias, and all the mentioned tools (Vite, ox* family) are genuinely very good.

I rarely run into any classic NPM problems other than the barrage of supply chain attacks that make me recheck my dependency tree every week.

First Deno, and Bun later, shook the Node.js development. If you are VC-backed you need to find a way to become sustainability as soon as possible. Unfortunately for Deno, Bun and Vercel arrived and took its spot as the cool Node.js kids.

Nowadays Node.js is leading (again) the ecosystem innovation thanks to its Foundation-based structure and a set of a very skilled core-developers. Being Foundation-backed you can think to the long-term value of your features without trying to climb the hackernews ladder every week.