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Because they don't have the slightest clue what they're doing.

• zero_shift 1y ago
  It's not that either. There are a handful of important packages that are controlled by people who have consulting / commercial interests in OSS activity. These people have an incentive to inflate download numbers. There could be a collective push to move off these deps, but it takes effort and nobody has a strong incentive to be the first