This sounds like such a fucking nightmare. I got into software because I like writing code. Their job is now the equivalent of a full time PR reviewer.

Classic https://youtu.be/Ll-lia-FEIY

I use yt-dlp… https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp I recently saw Pinchflat, which may be worth trying out as a front-end for yt-dlp… https://github.com/kieraneglin/pinchflat

Thanks. I also forgot to mention that I have a Home Assistant instance running on a different machine that isn’t reliant on NPM, and it works fine, and has the same issue when I try to migrate it to NPM, so I’m sure the issue is there. I’ll try your suggestions.