README: reflow the npm entry and drop an overstated clause

The rc path is how this refusal is reached, not 'the one door an
operator actually walks through' -- most releases are bare and never
see it. Also rewrap the npm paragraph, left ragged by the previous
commit.
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@ -512,8 +512,8 @@ in this catalog whose remedy is a manual bump, not a re-run.
[L86](lib/version.sh#L86): the version reaching the bump is not bare `X.Y.Z`.
Two senses of *bare* meet here, and the gap between them is the **rc release
path** — the one door an operator actually walks through. decide calls a
version bare when it is not `-dev`
path** — the way this refusal is actually reached, and designed behaviour
rather than a decide bug. decide calls a version bare when it is not `-dev`
([version_is_dev](lib/version.sh#L68-L76) matches that suffix and nothing
else), so row 6 admits a transition to `1.2.3-rc1`, and a labeled rc ceremony
is designed to ship ([lib/decide.sh](lib/decide.sh#L108-L110)).
@ -533,9 +533,9 @@ rows 12 send `-dev` to a no-op, and the tag door never bumps.
[L106](lib/version.sh#L106): the package-json backend needs npm to write —
`npm pkg set version=` plus a lockfile-only `npm install`
([L114L115](lib/version.sh#L114-L115)), never `npm version`, which would tag
— and the runner has none. The read path fails the
same way one step earlier (`node is required…`, above), so a run reaching
*this* message got past the read — set up node/npm in the caller.
— and the runner has none. The read path fails the same way one step earlier
(`node is required…`, above), so a run reaching *this* message got past the
read — set up node/npm in the caller.
> version_write: unknown backend: $backend