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Comment by rglover

3 months ago

Because they don't have the slightest clue what they're doing.

It's not that either.

There are a handful of important packages that are controlled by people who have consulting / commercial interests in OSS activity. These people have an incentive to inflate download numbers.

There could be a collective push to move off these deps, but it takes effort and nobody has a strong incentive to be the first