`npm run create-react-app` error on macOS

[penberg]

@pereman2 reports that:

npm error A complete log of this run can be found in: /Users/peristocles/.npm/_logs/2026-01-12T16_01_37_505Z-debug-0.log

Aborting installation.
  npm install --no-audit --save --save-exact --loglevel error react react-dom react-scripts cra-template has failed.

Deleting generated file... node_modules
node:fs:1248
  return binding.rmSync(getValidatedPath(path), opts.maxRetries, opts.recursive, opts.retryDelay);
                 ^