Comment by joantune

You just get a different set of problems. When you require a specific version of a library, you're making your code incompatible with anything that requires a higher or lower version of that library. You're also assuming there will never be a security fix that requires you to update your dependency.

If there is a security fix, you should bump your dependency by hand, the other problems that you pointed out do not exist in Node (and it's about time they disappear in Java)