Summary

the Node.js CI download changes broke mongosh CI:

https://github.com/mongodb/node-mongodb-native/blob/4b5be2121fdcca0879447be24e8e935dfcd14764/.evergreen/install-dependencies.sh#L96-L98

makes installations that do use nvm fail with

Your user's .npmrc file (${HOME}/.npmrc)
has a `globalconfig` and/or a `prefix` setting, which are incompatible with nvm.

Mongosh could add something like rm -f ~/.npmrc to our scripts, but it would make sense to address this in the driver scripts, since it is leaving a global npm config with a prefix pointing to a path that no longer exists (because that path does get cleaned up between tasks, I assume)

NPM has env variables that can control the settings we need instead of needing to write an rc file: We should strive to use that.
export npm_config_prefix=