The thing is that you cannot use ESM in normal project. Typescript and jest still do not support many features and node.js today have important features marked as experimental.

OP push for ESM is absolutly annoying. There is big disconnect between node.js modules working group, library authors, tooling projects and reality of node.js projects.

At work, I simply see no migration path. People that push for node.js broken ESM version have no idea.