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If software is trending towards small team/solo maintainers, what are the consequences? I imagine that it will be more common to switch between libraries with different designs. Maintainer idiosyncrasies will be more prominent too.

Slow progress towards self-driving cars, despite early optimism: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2020/2/14/21063487/self-driving-cars-autonomous-vehicles-waymo-cruise-uber (Human fatalities are 1 per 100,000,000 miles driven, and no manufacturer has driven that much yet!)

The proper way to solve an X-Y problem is to provide a solution for both X and Y. Y: because there might be a good reason for it and you risk being condescending otherwise. X: to steer people towards best practices and because it's probably what they wanted.