It's very sad. I was excited about Deno from day one, and I wanted to see it succeed.

Deno's ability to run TypeScript files - stripping types - was arguably implemented in Node because of Deno. The consolidated tooling approach was a good attempt at solving tooling fragmentation that Node suffers from.

I think for Deno to succeed, it would've had to have been under a non-profit and maybe that can still happen.