Comment by sporkland

> These crates also get "refactored" every few months, with breaking API changes, which breaks the stack for months at a time until everyone gets back in sync.

This was a problem with early versions of Scala as well, exacerbated by the language and core libs shifting all the time. It got so difficult to keep things up to date with all the cross compatibility issues that the services written in it ended up stuck on archaic versions of old libraries. It was a hard lesson in if you're doing a non-hobby project, avoid languages and communities that behave like this until they've finally stabilized.