It has wayyyyy better nodejs compatibility (day 1 goal)

As far as I know, modern Node compat in Deno is also quite great - I just import packages via 'npm:package' and they work, even install scripts work. Although I remember that in the past Deno's Node compat was worse, yes.

Pretty sure one of the Deno day 1 goals was to correct mistakes made during the early days of Node.js.