I think this is a very specious connection. I've been using Rails since 2005 and so I got a good dose of vendor/plugins versus bare gem installation versus Bun

I think this is a very specious connection. I've been using Rails since 2005 and so I got a good dose of vendor/plugins versus bare gem installation versus Bundler (ie. steadily moving up the continuum of package management), and my observation is that library quality and maintenance is utterly orthogonal to package management capabilities. The package manager itself has only helped my life as a developer, the tricky part is picking trustworthy dependencies.