Name-calling and slurs, both of which you've done here, break the HN guidelines. If you have a substantive point, please make it without stooping to these; if you don't, please don't post at all.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11340768 and marked it off-topic.

No, the original author didn't change his mind. The people at NPM undid his unpublishing so that peoples' builds would pass while the mess gets sorted out.

That's exactly what I said.

No it isn't. No one flip-flopped here.

What's "flip-flopping"? The package restored is not the one the trademark issues were about.