Maybe you want to fork https://github.com/pfenwick/ipc-system-simple instead of merely waxing philosophical?

Why? I see no purpose in that module (nor the raft of other 'try and make Windows work like *nix' modules) at all. I have not found any of them useful.

As I said, it tries to abstract at too low a level. I prefer to use system directly and encapsulate OS differences at a higher level. At the module level for preference.