Comment by hogrug

The facts are interesting but the conclusion a bit strange. These package managers have succeeded because git is better for the low trust model and GitHub has been hosting infra for free that no one in their right mind would provide for the average DB.

If it didn't work we would not have these massive ecosystems upsetting GitHub's freemium model, but anything at scale is naturally going to have consequences and features that aren't so compatible with the use case.