It occurs to me that when the work is too much and people can't keep up, the solution is to pool resources. Many of the comments on that article talk about the

It occurs to me that when the work is too much and people can't keep up, the solution is to pool resources. Many of the comments on that article talk about the reticence of package maintainers to continue with fiercely complex packages. That appears to be the real problem, aside from what sounds like constant gotchas imposed by Google. It feels like a solution is a cross distribution package with bundled dependencies, maybe through Flatpak or an AppImage.