Making projects more trustworthy: checks and balances, replacing the culture of single-author micropackages with larger multi-maintainer projects (like Qt) wher

Making projects more trustworthy: checks and balances, replacing the culture of single-author micropackages with larger multi-maintainer projects (like Qt) where maintainers review each other's work (as well as outside contributors), reducing the ability for one rogue individual to pull stunts (instead requiring the coordination of multiple people, which is not impossible but more difficult). Avoiding delegating trust: simpler dependencies with the minimum necessary functionality for each user, writing code not to ease the job of maintainers, but to better teach users learn how it works, empowering users to review/contribute upstream changes or fork the library if they desire. This conflicts with Boost-like entangled "multi-maintainer projects" where every library has a sprawling tree of internal dependencies, but (I'd argue) not more modular large projects.