This is likely a side effect of the fact that there is no "peer-review" process in the form of a pull request or maintainers etc. to publish a gem to rubygems.o

This is likely a side effect of the fact that there is no "peer-review" process in the form of a pull request or maintainers etc. to publish a gem to rubygems.org. Can such names can also be observed with PyPI etc. which have a similar low-barrier publishing mechanism? This is different from other package distribution channels like your operating system's default package/portage manager. Homebrew I believe accepts pull requests, Ubuntu solves this problem by introducing an additional step where the end user has to manually add the ppa repository to apt before being able to install packages.