I've worked with team leads who were against the idea of assigning maintainers/owners to specific packages, on the rationale that we didn't have enough people t

I've worked with team leads who were against the idea of assigning maintainers/owners to specific packages, on the rationale that we didn't have enough people to do that (I still do not understand how that rationale works either). Instead you end up in a situation where everyone is responsible for everything, which also means everyone is responsible for nothing.