Vue-cli create project fails with Sass/SCSS (with node-sass) in Node.js 16

Version

4.5.13

Environment info

Mac OS Big Sur 11.2.3
node v16.1.0
npm 7.13.0
@vue/cli 4.5.13

Steps to reproduce

vue create vue4

Vue CLI v4.5.13 ? Please pick a preset: Manually select features ? Check the features needed for your project: Choose Vue version, Babel, TS, Router, CSS Pre-processors, Linter ? Choose a version of Vue.js that you want to start the project with 3.x ? Use class-style component syntax? No ? Use Babel alongside TypeScript (required for modern mode, auto-detected polyfills, transpiling JSX)? Yes ? Use history mode for router? (Requires proper server setup for index fallback in production) Yes ? Pick a CSS pre-processor (PostCSS, Autoprefixer and CSS Modules are supported by default): Sass/SCSS (with node-sass) ? Pick a linter / formatter config: Prettier ? Pick additional lint features: Lint on save ? Where do you prefer placing config for Babel, ESLint, etc.? In dedicated config files ? Save this as a preset for future projects? Yes ? Save preset as: LAst Vue4

What is expected?

Installed project

What is actually happening?

Too many npm errors when installing dependancies.

npm ERR! code 1 npm ERR! path /Users/admin/Documents/WWW/myland.loc/vue4/node_modules/node-sass npm ERR! command failed npm ERR! command sh -c node-gyp rebuild npm ERR! CXX(target) Release/obj.target/libsass/src/libsass/src/ast.o npm ERR! CXX(target) Release/obj.target/libsass/src/libsass/src/ast_fwd_decl.o

… many lines of errors …

npm ERR! gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v3.8.0 npm ERR! gyp ERR! not ok

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in: npm ERR! /Users/admin/.npm/_logs/2021-05-14T08_02_09_147Z-debug.log ERROR command failed: npm install --loglevel error --legacy-peer-deps

[sodatea]

• node-sass is deprecated, please avoid using it if possible (use sass instead). Vue CLI v5 won’t provide this option on creation anymore.
• Node.js 16 is too new. node-sass has only released a version that supports Node.js 16 days ago. Vue CLI still creates projects with an older version of node-sass, which supports Node.js 14 at most.

[TomHall2020]

Agreed, just had the same problems while trying my first tutorial in vue, its confusing to have that option in there if its known to fail!