Comment by infogulch

That makes sense. It seems this "problem" is unlikely to be "solved" by reintegrating projects into larger crates, for good technical and social reasons. Then the solution is to reframe the problem.

Distributed code review is a brute-force style solution. Republishing collections of crates under a single name/version is a dimensionality-reduction and responsibility-concentration style solution. I suspect pure-PR style solutions will be ineffective. What other kind of solutions are there?