Why is 'name' required in package.json?

[wereHamster]

• chore(get_package_json): generate more detailed error when package.json parsing failed #194
• Found a weird edge case, not worthy of a bug, make sure that package.json has a name attribute #193

It's not required by npm (the package manager):

If you don't plan to publish your package, the name and version fields are optional.

Source: https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/v11/configuring-npm/package-json#name

Nor is the field marked as required in the schema. https://github.com/SchemaStore/schemastore/blob/master/src/schemas/json/package.json