I think Deno's management have been somewhat distracted by their ongoing lawsuits with Oracle over the release of the Javascript trademark.

I started out with Deno and when I discovered Bun, I pivoted. Personally I don't need the NodeJS/NPM compatability. Wish there was a Bun-lite which was freed of the backward compatability.

I'm in a similar position.

I use Hono, Zod, and Drizzle which AFAIK don't need Node compat.

IIRC I've only used Node compat once to delete a folder recursively with rm.