CocoaPods isn't an official tool so it's not really the Swift team's fault that it's bad. SPM should certainly have been "done" by now though, Carthage was put

CocoaPods isn't an official tool so it's not really the Swift team's fault that it's bad. SPM should certainly have been "done" by now though, Carthage was put together quicker by a team of volunteers without access to Apple's resources and generally works perfectly (yes, deferring most of the work to xcodebuild).