Python packaging tooling and infrastructure is exactly like this: https://xkcd.com/2347/ https://xkcd.com/2347/ Everybody uses it, but the work of maintaining

Python packaging tooling and infrastructure is exactly like this: https://xkcd.com/2347/ https://xkcd.com/2347/ Everybody uses it, but the work of maintaining it is thankless and doesn't receive nearly as much attention as you would expect relative to the popularity of the language. The unfortunate thing is that there's only a very small number of people actively maintaining, and they have so little time available that it's nearly impossible even to contribute something substantial. I bore witness to an attempt by my colleagues to replace the legacy XML-RPC APIs (which have been publicly declared as deprecated for years with no replacement even today) which completely fell through because the maintainers didn't want to (or have time to) provide any feedback whatsoever. It was basically requested that a 100% implementation with 100% test coverage be provided before they would even spend the time to evaluate the API design concept and give feedback.