> But any elisp package will have lots of annoying small day-to-day bugs and glitches. I disagree. That's a broad and false generalization. Most packages are

> But any elisp package will have lots of annoying small day-to-day bugs and glitches. I disagree. That's a broad and false generalization. Most packages are bug-free. If you're submitting to MELPA you need to make sure your package works and follows some guidelines for namespaces and organization, which can all the checked within emacs itself. Every package on a package tracker is vetted by at least one external dev. Emacs functions usually require little to no modification for years, because the core is very stable.