That's my diagnosis. I've tried on and off since at least 2006 to affect the course of that culture, to make managing R packages more tractable. I'd say the R

That's my diagnosis. I've tried on and off since at least 2006 to affect the course of that culture, to make managing R packages more tractable. I'd say the R dev community was then actively hostile to a culture change to support any model other than individual contributors working at their desktop.