In practice there's this one guy who likes to support ancient JS engines, and this one other guy who likes making lots of tiny packages which depend on his other tiny packages. They both see what they're doing as features, not bugs. And they are both very prominent devs with a lot of popular packages.

So unlikely to change unless everyone stops using their popular packages.

Every now and again people get worked up and try to bully them about it, which is unfortunate because they seem like generally good people, and their arguments in favor of their positions are pretty well documented.