I think its only the natural progression. there are definitely some flaws with it, it isn't perfect. However, the tradeoffs really do seem to swing in favor of deno.
It's too little, too late. Deno today might have been more interesting years ago when you had to write your own Typescript definitions for every library because TS had no traction.
In 2020, Deno is just a stone's throw from `ts-node server.ts`.
And the permissions system lacks the granularity to be useful.
One can simply say, 'Deno is like Node but done right'.