One part of the solution might come from using Nix; The release engineering team has started using Nix in their build process. Once all dependencies are mapped

One part of the solution might come from using Nix; The release engineering team has started using Nix in their build process. Once all dependencies are mapped in Nix it means you just need to install the tool itself and all the dependencies will get pulled automatically. It doesn't solve porting to new arch and platforms (especially Windows) so it's still a good idea to keep the number of dependencies down. But on any amd64 Linux it should be fine.