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I hope they would do the right thing and move the registry to the Foundation.

Do we even know if that's an option? The founders may have been diluted, and the assets could be owned by the investors in the result of a closure. Will they be good stewards? Would they want to sell it off to earn back loss investment?

If somebody buys npm, they would have all interests in keep the registry running. The Foundation is the natural destination. I would love to see the npm cli getting in there too (asap).

is there some urgency or news item I’m missing here

I read that npm cut 10% of staff and did something relating to gag orders. Just from the info out there, it looks like a rough road forward, even from just a reputation POV.

there’s nothing unusual about a severance package containing a non-disparagement clause

additionally it's not hard to pull out double digit percentages when your staff is below 50 people

granted, a foundation-managed registry might be good, and contingency plans are good. but how we got from layoffs to “impending doom” seems like classic alarmist twitter