I see a similar issue posted here: Npm i fails
I will troubleshoot. I did about a day of digging on this maybe a month ago (whenever 1.4.x first landed) and then I tabled it because I couldn't figure it out. Anyway. Thanks for the response. I'll see what I can do.
UPDATE: I had to enable a a different nodejs (EL and Fedora builds are now "modular" and entire multiple versions of packages are available but you have to enable the specific package sets). I.e., using nodejs:12 instead of nodejs:10 solved this issue. Cheers.